A new crop of fresh white architectural bags, Pittsburgh houses! Screenprinted onto brushed white canvas, with a screenprinted Pittsburgh on the other side. There’s about five of the bags, all medium-small size, lunch-picnic size. The ink is auburn, sometimes with a hint of purple. All up on Etsy!
Onto the next stage of The Beechview Project! Thanks to lots of responses to my calls for thoughts on Beechview, I’ve prepared the first crop of 9 talking heads, for display in 1619 Broadway. They’ll go up tomorrow.
I have to take some pride in my thriftiness here — altogether, they cost just $5.29 to print out — 15″ circles printed out in 4×6″ glossy photo tiles. Thanks CVS! I cut them out and assembled them onto thick cardboard circles I cut out from old computer screen boxes. The photo tiles were Elmer glued on, and then the cardboard circles were straightpinned onto a wide swath of ribbon. Tomorrow, I’ll tie the ribbon up above the window, so that the 9 will hang as a grid in one of the giant 1619 windows.
I still need more responses for the next 9 circles, so come leave feedback if you haven’t already!
My first Steelers Nation Tattoo Men — three barrel chested, pin headed, massive armed guys. After drawing the tattoos and assembling the bodies, here are the completed men. Each almost 3 feet tall! Long legs, very squeezable (muscle? fat?) torsos, and ambivalent faces. Now that I’ve warmed up with these basic guys, time to take a crack at the big-time tattoo men!
Men dolls: My first 3 tattoo Steelers Nationals!
Lots of tattoos, arms, backs, midriffs. And nipples too, my first attempt at those too. I compiled a bunch of different tattoos from the Miller Gallery’s growing collection of Steelers Fans’ body art, and markered them onto a flesh-colored stiff fabric, watercolor-penciled in some color, and sewed on faces. They are huge!
The official bestowal of Alice’s black and white (bell-bottom) plaid The Tony Novosel Bag!
Just one token of thanks to Alice and her amazing fabric generosity…
On my way to New York to meet Ciaran, I found bright white plastic shoes in the airport. They are made by Crocs, and they are kind of squeaky plastic, but they are two great weirdly shaped canvases for Sharpie drawing. I decided to draw my daily commute, all 1 hour and 10 minutes of it, across the shoes. So much detail! But if I dare to wear them, I’m sure Pittsburgh’s moisture will smudge it all away.
My back up plan for law school is t-shirts. I have ideas, lots of Pittsburgh ideas, and I am going to make them into millions, ideally of US dollars. I begin with cats! Pittsburgh cats, from 12 neighborhoods to begin with. International T-Shirt Day is Monday, Pittsburgh t-shirts are on the rise, who needs law school?
Over Panther Hollow, someone has embroidered the Schenley Bridge, or really the fencing alongside the bridge’s walkway. Somehow the threads survived the winter, they’re still there, and no one seems to really mind.
My first sturdy tote bag, with blue and pink lines of Pittsburgh houses.
