365 Day 37 -- KT Goodlove 196

What freakin' language are you speaking?


KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #196.

On some of the blocks I make a reverse mask of Kettle's image and add in things to the backgrounds. For this collage I used a piece of butcher/deli paper that I colored with alcohol inks and watercolors because I wanted to see if I could get a bush and sky feel without adding an actual bush or sky. I like it.

I also like how I can't decide if it is the dog man or the snake/worm guy asking the question. (I always think of these characters that come out of the holes as snakes...but I suppose they might be worms.)

KT Goodlove 181

Now what?


KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #181.

KT Goodlove 174

I'm fond of him

I enjoy it when you can't tell who is speaking in the collage.

Just a couple of buddies out for a nice slither.

KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #174.

KT Goodlove 172

I got up at 5 a.m.

Again, this is one of the more difficult blocks in this set (for me) and I tackled it today, along with the previous blocks 168-171.

Usually, Kettle paints on the blocks. On occasion, he will paint and add a paper piece...sometimes a phrase, sometimes a bit of foreign wording, and sometimes a children's book illustration.
That throws me off a little. Nothing wrong with it, it just throws me because I finally got used to cutting some of my Animal People to fit around Kettle's painted images and this feels very different. Just a matter of stepping outside of my comfort zone I guess.

KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #172.

KT Goodlove 169

I'll start at the beginning.

This block is one of the group of challenging ones for me. When I first scanned it, I scanned it horizontally...having no idea which way it went.

KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle paints on the block and then I add my paper bits. This is #169.

365 Day 14 / KT Goodlove 161

I will slip unnoticed through the darkness like a dark unnoticeable slippy thing.

I know this one looks particularly plain, but it was not a quickly assembled piece. I am very happy with it. For me, everything is working together -- the characters are interacting, the quote is good and fits (and took a long time to decide on), it is hard to tell which character is saying the line, the colors pop. I even had to piece together the 161 because I couldn't find one anywhere...and I really like the two-toneness of it.

KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. This is number 161 in the series.

The quote is from 2005's MirrorMask by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.

KT Goodlove 160

I have a different kind of teeth than you

This is another quote from "The Fanstastic Mr. Fox" and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the film. I just like the line.

KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. This is number 160 in the series.

KT Goodlove 159

You're improving -- let's put it like that.

That line comes from "The Fantastic Mr. Fox". At least that's where I got it.

Oh, and neither the scanner nor my point-&-shoot Canon camera will pick up the delicious beyond Barbie pinkness of the background of this collage. I might try and capture it sometime when it is daylight outside. I mean it is like poke your eyes out dayglo pink...very wonderful and intense color. Have you ever seen my Isaac Mizrahi purse set? It is kinda sorta like that. Kind of.


KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. This is number 159 in the series.

KT Goodlove 158

"Strangerfoot is gone."
"Yeah, he was cement."

You had to have been there...that's all I'm going to say.

KT Goodlove is the collaborative collage series that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. This is number 158 in the series.

KT Goodlove 154

Are you trying to get me fired?

This is #154 in the collaborative mixed media collage series called "KT Goodlove" that Kettle and I make for Art-o-mat. Kettle does the painting, I do the paper parts.

KT Goodlove # 143

"all questions must be submitted in writing"











This is block #143 in the Kettle and Took collaboration series KTGoodlove for Art-o-mat®.

KT Goodlove # 140

I didn't want to put any words on this block so that the viewer could imagine what song the dog guy is playing.

This is block #140 in the Kettle and Took collaboration series KTGoodlove for Art-o-mat®.

KT Goodlove # 137

"nooooo...but mostly yes"

Those two dogs just cracked me up, so they had to be in a collage together.

For anyone counting along with me, this is block #137 in the Kettle and Took collaboration series KTGoodlove for Art-o-mat®.

KT Goodlove # 134

"I'm a doctor, too."

This is block #134 in the Kettle and Took collaboration series KTGoodlove for Art-o-mat®.

KT Goodlove # 133

"Wait where you are. Wait a little longer."

It is a shame that the scans and the photo don't really show the gold metallic paint in this one. (The star is unpainted.)

Funny, I pretty much never ever plan the way these turn out. The words get put on after the picture is completed. I have a bowlful of phrases that I have already printed out and I just choose one to fit...or pull one out randomly.

When I printed this phrase out, it was meant to be mostly amusing or something. But when I added it to this block and looked at it, it choked me up for a second...then I was okay again.

But really, it can still be amusing...that's how I meant it.

This is block #133 in the Kettle and Took collaboration series KTGoodlove for Art-o-mat®.

KT Goodlove # 132

"Why don't I believe you?"







This is block #132 in the Kettle and Took collaboration series KTGoodlove for Art-o-mat®.

KT Goodlove # 130

"you get the idea"








This is block #130 in the Kettle and Took collaboration series KTGoodlove for Art-o-mat®.

KT Goodlove # 128

"The strange noises keep getting closer and closer."

This is one of those collages where I can't tell who is speaking the words...I like that.

This is block #128 in the Kettle and Took collaboration series KTGoodlove for Art-o-mat®.

KT Goodlove # 127

"prisoner zero has escaped"

This is block #127 in the Kettle and Took collaboration series KTGoodlove for Art-o-mat®.

oh, let's call it 30

"I've changed my ways."

As long as I have 50 collages to send in, it really doesn't matter what number they are in this blog...why am I obsessing about this?