Leftover Salmon poster at The Stanley Hotel.

For the last couple years now “slamgrass” band, LEFTOVER SALMON has held an annual event at The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO also known as “The Overlook Hotel” from the horror classic, The Shining. Guests are encouraged to dress up and the whole weekend is themed after the film. I was happy to get an invite to do the poster for the show and work with the band for the first time.

Obviously when coming up with concepts for the poster working imagery from the film was important. The previous years posters had been more portraits of characters from the film and I wanted to try a different route.

The typewriter plays a huge roll in the film and was an easy starting point for me. I thought using it to represent Jack, especially from the “bar scene” where he truly starts to lose it was perfect and tried to use smokey filagree to work in other imagery (twins, axe, etc..) including a “fleur di lis” representing Mardi Gras.

The poster has a print run of 200 (signed/numbered) which were initially available at the show & I will have about 25 copies (#175-200) from the run available on Monday, March 12th @ 11am (PST). Before people start asking,… there are NO VARIANTS of this print.