Technically, this is a Fastest Possible Tom Slaughter Painting, but I don’t think the Fastest Possible Universe is ready to handle such a thing yet.
I’m super into the New York Valentines that Mr. Slaughter released on 20x200 yesterday, and in the first four minutes of our weekly “This Week I Am Excited By” breakfast tradition at work, I threw this together. It’s a shabby take on a really great and thoughtful pair of pictures, but the fact that I could do it at all highlights why I love it so much—the work feels so playful and sketchy and intimate and deceptively easy. Easy enough that I forgot the tree at the bottom right, and the dog looks like a blob of tar.
Because you should see them, here are Tom’s originals:
And because it was the first thing these prints reminded me of, and it is one of my favorite book covers, a picture of the cover from M. Sasek’s This is New York:
