week 6 - Floor, Hawks, Fight Amp - April 14 @ FUC

This week my friends in Fight Amp approached me with the opportunity to do the poster for their April 14th show with Floor and Hawks, at the First Unitarian Church. Awesome!

I'm always proud to do any service I can for bands I approve of. The music industry is such a shit show today that you should literally be throwing money at your favorite bands/artists. No, seriously, if you download a band's album for free - go see them live and slip a 10 into the guitarist's pedal board. They'll find it later and happily buy themselves a burrito.



I will probably never understand artists who don't thumbnail and sketch before jumping into a finished image. I mean, sure, I guess there's a few mutants out there who can just wing it, but for the most part, if your not doing a ton of conceptualizing and premeditation, you're not gonna get whats in your head out of your hand.

I'll be selling these babies at the show. You can come out and pick one up.

Also, there will be only a handful of these posters given out at the Takehold (my old hardcore band), Fight Amp, Ladder Devils, Holy Hour, Deathbeds show, on April 9th - the week prior. In addition, the April 9th posters will be on sale - however, right now I'm thinking maybe we'll include a free issue of this poster with the April 9th poster. Two for the price of one - first come first serve.

week 5 - 'Smalls Falls' painting

This was the biggest painting i've ever done! It's a painting of a photograph, done on the wall of a friend's house.

Painting a photo is weird, but this was good practice. Here's a very low quality (no tripod, bad camera) time lapse video of the whole process:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwpzcPfCgQQ

The song is Baths - Maximalist. I'm saying it here because I couldn't even create text to lay over the video, because iMovie is the worst program ever. It honestly seems more like a Cinco product than something that is taken seriously. The 'export' button is labeled as 'share' in this program. What were they thinking? Just wrap your head around that decision for while.

Doing a poster next week...

week 5 - Catch up

I copped out. I spent this week taking care of business matters. I painted a cake (no, like, ON a cake) for a friend, I sent out a mailer, submitted two images to American Illustration, and did revisions for 'Unweaving the Uncanny', 'New Art', and The Takehold Reunion Show poster from last week, which I will now post again.

I guess this is super final version. Check my site to see the other revisions 'fya want.

week 4 - Takehold Reunion Show Poster

I don't know how I feel about this one. I think i've been looking at it for too long. Within the next month or so I might do some revisions before I print it. I was working on it for several hours, and then looking back on an older version, thought with the exception of a few things, it had gotten over-worked. So I threw out a lot of the changes I made for a rougher version. And I still can't even tell which one is better.. That's how you know you've lost your vision and It's time to take a break or just hang it up. No gumption traps here!

Also, I love doing hand done type. I can't really relate to fonts.. I feel like they are cold and inflexible. Also, I don't know much about design - but I really like that. I almost feel proud that I am doing things that might make designers disgusted. It's fun to destroy taboos.

My old band, Takehold, is getting together to play a show in April with a lot of much cooler bands. I'll be selling these at the show. Come by and pick one up. If you want.



Crystalization is a non-invasive way for people to understand what kind of developments can take place over the course of geological time - and no one disputes it because it doesn't interfere with any systems of belief.

I had to decide on animal who's evolutionary beginnings are especially interesting. So I picked birds, because as you may know, birds evolved from dinosaurs. Feathers have been described as 'highly modified scales'. So this is a kind of Trojan Horse of a concept - the evolution of the feather; a pretty controversial fact, showcased and pacified with a much more non-invasive fact.