This is an image from a calender I was designing with someone in 2012. Before 2013 rolled around my involvement with the process was scrapped and even though I had already completed 5 months, I never made this last one. Looking through an old folder of unfinished designs a few days ago,  I noticed this file and decided that I should go ahead and finish it.  I made a few changes and…presto, here you go.

I will be at the “I Heart Milwaukee” Art opening tomorrow at the Waxwing. I’ll have a couple new things and a handful of pieces from last year (above image) that several people asked about buying when I originally posted them. The image above is the original version of “You Are Two and I Am One”. My friend Zak wanted me to make something for him that he could give as a gift, so I reworked this into something more elaborate.
See it reworked here.

A few years ago I made a series called Love Is Blind using these same two characters. I cut out the final image with the removed heart and the word “Blind” incorporated in the mix. I had just received my dad’s old laptop at the time and that was what I designed them on. Before I could cut out the “Love” and “Is” images, the computer crashed and I lost everything. Luckily I had sent a friend a crappy small jpeg of my idea. I used that to rebuild the set over the weekend. I updated them by removing the words, adding color, placing them in the woods and considerably reducing the size. The original “Blind” image is in my “Scherenschnitte” folder on my personal FB page if you are curious. I’ve never done a series before where the background was exactly the same. Cutting the same background thee times wasn’t hard, but it was very boring and I got a little lazy by image 3. I doubt I’ll do this again.

Earlier this year (which seems silly to be saying in January) I was contacted by Victory Garden Initiative to contribute a piece for their upcoming Fruity Nutty Affair event. I was given a very wide window of themes: garden, food or fruit tree.
I was telling a friend recently that my first idea was a more realistic rabbit, eating vegetables in a garden with a hectic figure running towards it. I made a rough sketch and while I was in the process of developing the design further, it came to me that maybe I could ‘Milwaukeeize’ it somehow. For reasons only brain juices know, when my thoughts combined bunnies and Milwaukee, I thought of the Laverne & Shirley theme and was obviously drawn to the “hasenpfeffer incorporated” lyric. A few drafts later and here you go……
This piece will be part of a silent auction during Victory Garden’s  4th annual Fruity Nutty Affair which takes place on Feb. 22nd. The proceeds from the evening will go towards planting fruit and nut producing orchards (30 trees each) in 5 different neighborhoods.
Their goal is $5000. If you can not attend, please consider a donation.

I finished another cut in the ‘Death & Burial of Cock Robin’ series that I’m messing around with.  This is inspired by the “Who saw him die?” verse. The next verse involves a fish catching blood in a dish. I haven’t had the time to give it much thought, but there is some pretty good potential with those three things.