Soul Clappin in Nashville

My Newest Soul Clap & Dance-Off poster for Jonathan Toubin's gig at the Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville on July 22nd. I decided that even though I've used Tina Turner a few times already on these posters we had to go with her since she recently passed away and Tennessee is her home state. Plus, she is just the Queen and one of my earliest childhood music memories.

More and more I've been trying to make these posters mimic the heyday of color/black & white soul revue posters while still crafting them in the way I like to. This one got very close to some diy kinko's cut and paste flier or zine. I've done close to 70 of these posters so I'm continually trying to push myself to keep the process fun and change them up enough so people don't get bored of looking at them. This feeling is usually fleeting but, this poster is one of my new favorites.

 

Chosen Winner AI 42 Annual Book

Received a nice bit of news the other day that the poster I made for the annual NY Night Train New Years Ball was chosen to appear in the AI 42 book. This poster was a lot of fun because I was trying to play around a little more with the mixed media technique I had started to use a little more frequently on the Soul Clap posters and it was also a bit stressful due to an entire re-working of the poster with a whole new central figure after the headliner had to pull out. So, it feels good to know this was the judges choice out of my submissions. A big thank you to American Illustration and all of this year's judges.

 

HOT DONUTS

"HOT DONUTS" is a collaborative piece between Travis Winters and I for the group show "Character and Narrative" which is currently on display at the Foothills Art Center in Golden, CO. We had originally planned to have this done a couple years back for our show "Bathhouse" but we ran out of time with all the other pieces we were working on. We managed to get it all wrapped up this time around though and I'm pretty pleased with the outcome. Seeing it all now with the backing, I honestly don't think we would have executed the piece as well if we had rushed it for the first show. 

Some process pics below detailing most of the backboard progress. You can catch this piece along with a ton of other work from Tom Sarmo, John Van Horn, Travis Winters and myself until October 20th at Foothills Art Center.