NY Night Train New Years Ball

The 15th annual NY Night Train New Years Ball is upon us and here is my new poster for it! You'll notice in some process pics there is already a poster with Kid Congo Powers that I am using for reference. Well, last year, Kid was scheduled to headline the party but had to back out last minute due to an injury. He's all healed up and back for the party this year so I created a new background with new information and just slapped the drawing of him from last year's poster onto this one. 

It was a bit tricky, color-wise, working on it without a central figure this time but I think I got it put together ok. I stuck with the pink and green elements that I pulled from the Gun Club classic, Fire of Love but wanted to add some elements that referenced another one of their albums: The 1984 classic, Las Vegas Story.

This baby will sell out so get those tickets asap ----> TICKETS!

 

Shayaya

New poster I recently whipped up for Shayaya, a wild new comedy experience coming your way at Brooklyn's Bell House on January 5th. 

Had a lot of fun working on this one, and like my Swamp Dogg poster, I've really been enjoying getting to incorporate the neon sign work I do for myself into my client work. Scroll down for those process pics.

 

Drawing the Things I Want To (6-10)

Corner Deli. Greenpoint, NY. (6/15)

4 x 6"

"Bloody hell. I'm sweating in here. Roasting. Boiling. Baking. Sweltering. It's like a sauna. Furnace. You can fry an egg on my stomach. Oh, who wouldn't lap this up? It's ridiculous. Tremendous. Fantastic. Fan-tabby-dozy-tastic." (7/15)

4 x 7"

Wainwright Softball Complex. Corning, NY (8/15)

4 x 6"

"I just wanted to leave, you know, my apartment. Maybe meet a nice girl. And now I've got to die for it!" (9/15)

4 x 7"

Pow Wow Trading Post. Holbrook, AZ. (10/15)

4 x 6"

 

Drawing the Things I Want To (11-15)

    

Flix Bus Station. 31st and 8 ave. (11/15)

4 x 6"

"Oh, Look! The Mother Rhino is Giving Birth!" (12/15)

4 x 6"

70mph McDonald's. I-17 Arizona. (13/15)

4 x 7"

Motel. Holbrook, AZ. (14/15)

4 X 6"

Hopi Travel Plaza. Holbrook, AZ. (15/15)

6 X 9 "

NY Night Train Presents Swamp Dogg

   

Including 2 versions of my new poster for the Swamp Dogg show at Knockdown Center on July 22nd. At the last minute, Brooklyn-based, Mighty Fine was added to the bill so, you'll notice on the 2nd version I added a little extra piece to the roadside sign with Eli "Paperboy" Reed's name on it.

Even though the source material for this drawing was a desert landscape, I am really enjoying my client's letting me bring more of my neon sign and landscape work that populates the majority of my personal work into my collaborative projects.

Anyways, you should not miss this show. Swamp Dogg is a true musical cult figure and most times we don't get the chance to experience them while they are still out on the road doing their thing. Process pics below.

1-900-FISH-BEER

New work and new podcast alert! A lot of my neon sign illustrations have been done primarily for my own personal projects so I was stoked when I was contacted by a client that wanted something very similar for the cover art for their new podcast.

The client and I are both boys of New York's southern tier so I swapped out the desert landscape that I usually use for these illustrations and went with that western NY landscape I know and love. Working on that sunset and landscape definitely made me feel a little homesick but, I know there are ticks galore in that tall grass so I didn't get too excited about running, arms wide open, through a field on my next visit home. 

The podcast is called 1-900-FISH-BEER and it premieres on Apple podcasts and Spotify this Thursday (5/18) "Weird fishing stories that are rarely about fishing and almost never about beer" Check er out!