COUCH ART UPDATE

ONE AWAY FROM the big 50!

I managed two more couches to make fifty last week, but unfortunately one just did not make the cut. So we are at 49 and holding. IF YOU see a couch on the street curbs of Denton – one of the fastest growing metro areas in the USA – contact me right away, and I will break through that big 50 number

NEW EPSON PRINTER ROCKS

New prints coming from my Epson P600 are fantastic! I hadn’t upgraded my printers in a few years, but with the closing of one door (at City of Denton), I am pushing another door open — artwork and printing artwork for myself and others. Those “others” would be artists and photographers WHO CARE about reproducing their artwork as accurately and archive-ally as possible. Epson archival life is rated at 200-years for black&white and 400-years for color. I remember one critic of a person I was printing for (old school), who lamented the fact the prints I was making would last a hundred years. Harsh, but it can be true.

FAST FORWARD – PRINTING FOR LOCAL ARTISTS

Here is a file from Mark Hutchison’s work. It will be available for purchase along with several other printed images — this weekend in Denton at the Armadillo Ale Works 10-5 Saturday only. It’s LESLIE’S BACK YARD ART SHOW! She’s been doing the show since 2014, so this makes the 5TH. anniversary of her show.

Couch Art Project – Only Seven Left

Denton Couch Art
Tentative logo for the book.

It’s an Easter egg hunt of sorts, finding these couches all over town. But the end is near. I found three additional couches over the weekend, and I bet this summer will close out the first FIFTY couches for the self-published title, “Couch Art, Volume I.”

These last three couches were real pieces of work, and these last two months have yielded some of the best couches since starting this project in 2017. I wonder how many UNT or TWU students could focus their minds, their determination and their cameras for two full years on a single project?

In all honest, I lost focus somewhere! When images come in drips-drabs and then torrents … somewhere along the way I lost count or lost images in the machines.