This weekend I revisited some pieces from earlier this year and reworked them in new ways for a group show I’m in at Public Works. First, I took my portrait of Patti Smith and printed it out, cut out the shape with a razor and played around with the negative and positive shapes on an old painting of mine. Once it looked right I affixed it with Polymer medium to give it a nice shiny finish.

For the second one I took a print of my psychedelic dreamer girl, affixed it to a piece of wood that I’d painted and repainted on for the past year (giving it a nice, weathered look) and quickly placed some red hilights onto the illustration. The end result is rough and bold, both of these new pieces a tribute to my love of street art and wheatpasting, but being too scared to go about doing it on walls.

They go up this Thursday night in the Beasts and Beats show at Public Works.