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.

Greenpoint Open Studios 2023

I'm showing my studio during this year's Greenpoint Open Studios. Swing on by and check out a mix of my work from the last few years. I'll have prints, t-shirts, stickers and koozies for sale as well. Click the link above for a map of what artists/studios are showing and other events occurring during the weekend.

There's a sample of some of my work below that I'll have up for the weekend.

Greenpoint Open Studios

June 10th, 11th

12-6pm

 

Sunday Soul Scream Summer 2023 Edition

Summer is approaching so that means another round of Jonathan Toubin's Sunday Soul Scream at Our Wicked Lady in East Williamsburg's industrial zone is upon us.

We bounced back and forth between using these party frogs and King Kong but the frogs just looked like too much fun to pass on. Pulled some inspiration from mid-century design on hotel bar matchbooks while still keeping it recognizable as my Soul Scream poster work. I'm always battling with my desire to make these with a more minimal palette every year (2-3 colors max) and my inevitable slide into using 5, 6, 7 + colors. It's just the battle I go through with wanting to render something completely and create a striking graphic image.

Anyways, the party kicks off on Sunday May 28th and goes on every summer Sunday up to Sept 3rd. Be sure to follow the Sunday Soul Scream instagram to see what bands and guests dee jays will be appearing every Sunday night.

 

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!

 

Welcome 2 Jonestown

Wrapped up this "Welcome 2 Jonestown" poster a few weeks ago and am finally getting around to posting it; it's been a hectic month and a half but things are calming down slightly. James Jones is back with his annual birthday celebration with several of his own projects on the 1st night at TV EYE and some friend's bands to pack out the 2nd night at THE BROADWAY of this 2-night music event. Should be a pretty wild time for fans of prog/jazz/metal mash-up.

Some details of the process below and when an event this size comes along, there are bound to be some changes with venues, line-up and just general disregard for double checking the spelling of bands names, so don't be confused by anything you read below. The image at the top is the final version with correct spelling and venues for each night.

 

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.

 

Soul Clap & Dance-Off 16th Anniversary Bash

New poster for the big ol' Soul Clap & Dance-Off 16th anniversary party. Jonathan Toubin and I have talked a few times about using R. Crumb's Keep on Truckin' illustrations as inspiration for one of the Soul Clap posters and it finally felt right this time. 

I first jumped in to work on these starting with the 7th anniversary poster so every time there is an anniversary gig it's a nice little reminder on how long I've been doing this. I'm sure I never pictured doing this pretty consistently for 9 years and honestly, I probably just assumed it was going to be a one-off thing like some collaborations can be. But, here we are. Crazy stuff. 

The anniversary bash goes down on March 24th, from 8pm-4am. This will likely sell out so scramble for those tickets quickly right here: TIX