Mucca Pazza Posters complete!


Limited series of 56, 1-color silkscreen with unique handmarking on each, 18x24”. Silkscreen printing by Sonnenzimmer.
Available at Mucca Pazza’s 3/25 show at Chicago’s Mayne Stage or from them directly: mucca-pazza.org













*See previous posts about this process on 2/18 and 2/22.

Big ups to Sonnenzimmer for ace printing of the blue!

Posters for Mucca Pazza, Pt.2

(part 1 of this post is here, and here are pics of finished work!).

finished lettering yesterday, gave electronic file to print aces Sonnenzimmer for the blue silkscreen part. word this afternoon that it’s done and being trimmed to 18x24” tomorrow — friday i’ll render the final paint marker stroke on each one, and then they’re off!






UPDATE: See here for the finished work, available at Mucca Pazza’s 3/25 show or from them directly: mucca-pazza.org

posters for Mucca Pazza

Mentioned earlier with marker comps “something in the works” — making a small run of posters for the band Mucca Pazza’s upcoming show at Mayne Stage in Chicago. We’re making a very limited number of 1-color silkscreen prints with a bit of hand-embellishment, and here’s how thoughts have progressed with it. Click any of these to see the pics a little bigger.



See, Mucca Pazza is “… a sort of punkish/rock marching band, playing sophisticated original scores and classics with a signature, high-intensity twist. The troupe’s comprised of something like 30(?) seasoned musicians that flexibly coalesce in venues and public spectacles to bring the noise, infectious joy and a sheer love of music.”









So I’ve honed-in on something like this directly above as a graphic for 18” x 24” posters, with the blue being printed and the black being a hand-drawn flourish afterward, each piece being somewhat unique. Next step: dedicating some careful attention to all the hand-lettering. Among these black curliques below are the ones I’ll use for the print template:

Printing next week, will share another update when I’m marking final strokes on ‘em.

UPDATE: See here for the finished work, available at Mucca Pazza’s 3/25 show or from them directly: mucca-pazza.org

Hey comics fans: help me sleuth sources?

A few months ago I took a comic book I’d got inside a “mystery bag” and sampled some imagery for use in a silkscreen mash-up experiment along with some other more-or-less random imagery at hand, including doodles, text… I’m not sure what all’s in there. Recently I exhumed these results and poked around on ‘em with paint, applied some additional freehand imagery. Whatever I wind up doing with these, I’ve completely forgotten the source for some of the imagery that’s evident, particularly the characters immediately below… Any comic book enthusiasts out there who might recognize these characters or suggest how I find out?


A Drying Rack!

Stunned to find this beaut over at our neighborhood antique store, and moreso to find I could afford it! Granted it’s gloriously “vintage” and will require some repairs to be fully-functional, but I can get current work-in-progress up off the floor and clear some lateral surfaces for other things to set down most immediately. 
Had to disassemble it to fit it up the stairs, which was a real chore once my wife and I dragged it home across snowy sidewalks, but right now putting it back together is a pleasure — and I think listening to Kazoomzoom’s collection of Ragtime-era faves is a big help, so… Here’s free download of that, for anyone interested: http://www.archive.org/details/kzz003. 

PS: My wife is awesome for (among many other things) helping me drag this sucker home across the snow and getting it inside & upstairs.  

Rookery Prints

Six silkscreened colors, 100lb French Whitewash Cover, 18x24” Limited edition of 70 Earlier this year I had a great experience performing an edition of prints with Sonnenzimmer, one of Chicago’s premier silkscreen shops, and after a busy season have finally vetted, signed and editioned the results — available now on my brand new electronic storefront: robfunderburk.bigcartel.com! Below are some session photos and notes. To purchase prints, go to robfunderburk.bigcartel.com. See, this wasn’t a drawing that we scanned and noodled with, or blew-up on a xerox machine or anything — the whole process was very direct and completely manual. Referring to photos and location studies, I drew what would become each separate color with black paint on a clear sheet of film laid directly on top of each preceding stage after printing. The result is a series that captures the drawing experience very directly, including discoveries along the way and very little revision or redirection of efforts. Rather than a series of reproductions of something that happened before it, each of these prints represents an original act that happened in a multitude of 70. For more info about the Rookery Building itself, see Wikipedia or therookerybuilding.com. And if you visit the Rookery, be sure to step inside and see its beautiful atrium — and in the NW corner, find the one marble-clad support column that’s open in the back to reveal the fantastic ornamental skeletal iron that’s underneath it all. To purchase prints, go to robfunderburk.bigcartel.com.

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