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Eric Church poster for Lexington KY, 2015
When given the task of coming up with something for a Lexington, KY show the obvious horserace and other imagery immediately came to mind which seemed really boring. I decided to dwell deeper into the hollers of Kentucky history and explore their love of the drink… Whiskey & particularly Moonshine. Some treat it as a proud history, others not so much but regardless “The Moonshiner” is an interesting subject in Southern Lore. Running from police, making hardcore booze out of nothing and a “I will fuck you up” attitude makes for an interesting poster. Especially for an Eric Church show….
I started off thinking simpler with more of a focus on an actual aged Whiskey barrel w/ the show info burned into it. Unfortunately for me… simple isn’t my style. I moved on to an idea of an old whiskey runner truck, kind of like in the 20’s, with the driver more of a skeletal figure. But in the end it was to hard to pass up the desire to draw a hardcore ol’ git Moonshiner sitting on his porch, ready to strike.
The Lexington, KY poster is 18′ x 24′, 4-color and had a print run of 170. I will have a very limited run of Signed/Numbered prints available the day after the event, Friday, May 8th @ 10AM (PST).
Village Voice’s 4Knots Music Festival 2015
More and more festivals seem to be popping up every year. Some die off… new ones arise… they can never be killed. I was approached by the Village Voice to do some branding/artwork for their somewhat new but annual event, the 4KNOTS MUSIC FESTIVAL in NYC. Every year it was down at the South Seaport but they are mixing it up this year and will be having it at Pier 84 in Hudson River Park. Bands are still to be announced but I am expecting big things for this one as the show become known as a “grungy/alt-rock” Festival over the years hosting such bands as Dinosaur Jr., Kurt Vile, The Black Angels, & Archers of Loaf.
The direction for this year was “Sea meets Land” and the wish was to have a number of sea creatures (crabs, starfish, octopus, etc.) hanging our jamming out w/ a number of lands creatures (squirrels, birds, lizards, etc.). After toying with a number of literal “Sea Creature” concepts which ended up resembling more the Creature from the Black Lagoon,… the Rocktopus was born.
The artwork is to be used for a ton of branding and promo material (website, shirts, tickets, stage banners). It is still early on as the show isn’t until July but once bands are announced there is a good chance we will be doing a limited screenprint for the show as well. All hail the Rocktopus!!!!!!
Trinkin 2nd Anniversary Party & Screens n’ Suds Art Sale
While living on the East Coast I was able to take part in a slew of events down in Richmond, VA put together by the folks at Screens n’ Suds that combined 2 of my favorite past times… beer & screenprinting. 2 past times that often happened simultaneously. Their events showcased the works of craft & microbreweries and screenprint artists and were charity events for the MS Society. Since moving I haven’t been able to work with them much but this past weekend they held along with Trinkin, an Anniversary party & Art sale at Gallery5 in RVA. Music was heard, beer was drunk and art was auctioned.
I was approached about using a design of “The BeerMonger” I had made for a previous event years ago as the commemorative shirt for this years show. Shirts were printed up by Triple Stamp Press and might still be available if you contact the folks at Screens n’ Suds.
Also local studio BigSecret created a sweet looking one-off wood etching that was to be auctioned off.
For those interested in the the original “BeerMonger“, A couple copies of the art print (16″ x 20”) are still available. Just follow the link below…..
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