Get Well Soon

Went to the Studio today to work on a special project, making a get well card (of sorts) for the boss of the building. He's on the mend, but will be out of action a little while. Since Herb is the man most responsible for the existence of the arts center that houses our space, Molly and I felt that he deserved some kind of card. Being artists, that meant we couldn't do something as simple as just go buy one at the drug store. Molly had suggested doing a collage, making use of previously printed materials. Molly often works that way in her own art, and usually has a pile of prints to cut up for such purposes. I don't, but I have lots of blocks ready to go. Not only does Herb run the building, but he does more of the physical labor of repairs and renovations than anyone else, so I decided to go with images of related equipment. I brought in some saint blocks and made some partial proofs of three of them, as seen in the top photo. (by the way, those are St Joseph [drill], St Barbara [room construction], and Bd Guala [ladder]) Used water based ink, so they dried quickly.

Next, I cut them down and brought them to the table where Molly was busy working. We used an old print left over from one of her students as a base, some of which ended up being in the final composition (red fountain, gold lettering) To that we added various elements from her pile and mine, moving them around before gluing things down. The composition was completed with the hand written message along the top. We were both pleased with the results. It was decided to deliver it to him today at home. Molly took it with her on her bike, I eventually followed with my car. Being a weekend there was no place to actually park anywhere near his house, but he and some family/friends were on the porch, so I could wave to him from the street while Molly presented him with our collaborative project. She later told me that he seemed to like it.