String Cheese Incident Atlanta poster… 420 Fest weekend.

The String Cheese Incident hit up Atlanta this past week to headline a night at the Sweetwater 420 Fest. I was lucky to be able to do the poster for the whole Festival and as I have worked with the band a ton in the past it only made sense to work with them on a special print for their Pre-party show at the Variety Playhouse the night before.

Initially I believe the show was a bit of a secret or at least exclusive, so the early concepts played on this fact using secret keyholes and mysterious weirdo characters trying to entice you to partake in the crazy event. For the dude I was influenced by R. Crumb & Gilbert Shelton and wanted him to have a kind of “Fabulous Furry Freak Bros” vibe. We even toyed with doing a print that directly tied w/ the 420 Fest print concept and making another airship that would be in the same airspace but figured it was too repetitive.

In the end the band decided to include the weekend dates of the 420 Fest as well so we adapted the idea a bit to feature the Centennial Olympic Park skyline and included some of the trippy airships as silhouettes in the sky.

The print had a 325 print and was skillfully printed by the badass folks at Good Thoughts. I will have a small Artist Edition (signed/AP) run of 25 available on April 27th @11am (PST).

As is pretty usual with SCI prints, there are No Variants… but this one was printed on a really, really nice Gold metallic paper and looks gorgeous. No variants needed.