Sweetwater 420 Fest 2019, poster & Coloring Nook

Another 420 Fest is in the books. I was lucky again to be asked to do the artwork for the Sweetwater 420 Fest, which included pins, posters, shirts and all kinds of merch. Its such a great Festival in the heart of Atlanta. The lineup is always great and there is so much imagery attached to it to play with. Along with the official 420 show print I also did a gigposter for Widespread Panic for the weekend.

Last years poster, was that of the Trout Airship and we decided to give this years a bit of a different vibe. I’ll draw a Sasquatch any chance I can get, so my initial concept was that of a chillin’ Country Squatch on a blanket magically summoning “Bones” the G13 fish but since there already is a Sasquatch Fest and Bigfoot stuff is pretty prevalent these days I altered it to that of a Wookie. This ended up being even better as Widespread Panic was headlining the show and the Wook pop up a lot in their imagery. To mix it up we went with a night time scene and tried out a couple different approaches to layout and borders.

Sweetwater asked me if I wanted to host a Coloring Nook event at the Festival, this time featuring drunken adults as opposed to little kids. Folks had a chance to win “foil variants” of the show print based off crowd reaction to their artwork. I had done this once or twice before at breweries and its always a crapshoot if people will be into it but folks showed up and it ended up being a pretty rad event.

The print had a 500 print run and was skillfully printed by the badass folks at The Half & Half. I will have a Artist Edition (signed/AP) run of 50 available on April 24th @11am (EST).