New Black Keys Tour Poster

Lots of new work coming out- here is a poster for The Black Keys. They are touring right now in the Midwest and east coast.

available now in my etsy shop

Weekend work

Lots of work on a cold Chicago weekend at the shop and drawing table.

Listening to a lot of Sun Ra and John Coltrane. Hoping to maybe catch Han Bennink at Corbett Vs. Dempsey tomorrow.

Editioning Black Keys Posters, check. Finishing Umphrey's McGee Poster, Check.

Starting to print "Rebirth" art print, check.

Here's a preview on "Rebirth" , the drawing about 2/3 completed.

Some of you will recognize the image from an Explosions in the Sky Poster I made last year using charcoal and ink. I always wanted to do another very very detailed version of this drawing, so I'm having fun with it. More photos to come later tonight and tomorrow.

Ramblin'

"Ramblin'"

5 color screenprint, 26 x 21 inches on Steel Blue Construction, edition of 100.




Close up:






UP for sale in my Etsy shop!

#37: Richard Milhous Nixon

Finally back to updating this blog. Lots of work happening , so I will start documenting it all here. Posters upcoming for The Black Keys, Witch ,Umphrey's McGee and a slew of new amazing art prints.

I was invited to do a portrait of a U.S. President for a show titled "All the President's Men" at Leia Bell's fine gallery Signed and Numbered in Salt Lake City.

Naturally I chose Richard Nixon. His resignation speech when I was 4 years old is one of my first vivid memories. I knew I'd have fun drawing his likeness and distorting it to my own ends and point of view on his criminal presidency.

Started off with a line drawing on claybord:



Scratchboard process:








And the final prints: (editioned on Red and Slate Grey)





And now for some choice Nixon quotes:

"Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."

"People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got. "

"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government. "

"Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I? "

"I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. "

This print is available in my Etsy shop.

Year of the Rooster!

It was obvious for me to publish "Year of the Rooster" after the Dragon print, seeing as the artwork was just waiting there for me...so here it is. Turned out really sweet- I am so addicted to French's poptone paper. I just ordered some great stock for the Tiger and Horse prints next week. Then its on to Oxen and Rat!

You can pick up the print in my etsy shop as usual.

Thanks to all of you who have been buying up the prints and mystery tubes. Its been an insane week of packing about 200 or so orders since Saturday. Thank you for keeping us busy! I have to keep NPR turned off right now- every report on the economy makes me break out in hives. MUCH better to listen to old Rodan records, really.

Other goings on...There is an opening tonight at Morpho Gallery in Chicago featuring work from Steve Walters, myself, Keith Herzik and artists from Spudnik press among others. If you are in the area of Foster and Damen tonight, stop by and say hi! I'll be there with the ninos early in the eve.

More Free shipping! Last of the Mystery tubes!

I had a free shipping offer in my Etsy shop this weekend and it was pretty great- I'm extending it through Dec 20th for all North American Customers. I also still have 20 or so of the amazing 6 for $30 mystery tubes. These are seriously the best surprises I've ever put together so check it out.

I'm also putting some OG original scratchboard poster drawings up this week in the shop and in the GP classifieds over on gigposters, so check that out as well, those will go fast as I never really sell original poster drawings. I'm putting up work for Explosions in the sky, The Black Keys, and more....

Sundays at home

The winter is arriving in Chicago today: walking with my daughters to the bagel shop this am we were greeted with wet flakes of melting snow. I tell myself to remember, this is the easy part of winter.
Must. Start. Running. Outside.
The rest of today has been spent playing with the girls for a while, printing out 3 lbs of mailing labels for print orders and working on a few new art prints I'm putting out this week.
Here's a preview of one. When I made the poster for Explosions in the Sky's Chicago show earlier this year I always thought in the back of my head I would make a scratchboard version of it as a stand alone print. So far, so good. More pics tomorrow.

Saw a great show on Friday at All Rise Gallery on Grand ave. My dear friends Jeff Tady and Todd Rittman showed new work; Tady showed his recent collages (mind=Blown) , while Todd showed 3 gigantic murals he painted on the gallery walls using only house paint and house-painting materials. They are expressionistic, awesome, and obtuse to say the least.

Rolling

New art print based on the "Screens and Spokes" print I made this year . This one is on a green/taupe paper and is an edition of 100. Up in the Etsy shop. Working on a small edition of this on wood right now as well.

Black Keys Contest winner, and The Mother of all Mystery Tubes sale!

Hey there,

Time flies. Finally drew the name for the Black Keys contest OG art = congrats to Richard Hernandez of Portland OR! Richard won the OG ink drawing for the Boston poster.

Did you know that I give away an art print every month to a newsletter subscriber? I do! Next one goes out tomorrow, so not too late to sign up.

I am doing a different mystery tube sale- limited to 100 tubes.

6 prints, $30. Details on the Etsy site.

Year of the Dragon art print

Lots and lots and lots of new work being published this week. Amongst other things I am making a series of prints based on the animals in the Chinese Zodiac- First up , Year of the Dragon:





available in my Etsy shop now!

Look for Tiger and Rooster later this week.

Ok, back to drawing and packing orders.

Black Keys London

Well, I've been incredibly sick since election day- the only thing that made me feel better from this virus was obviously the outcome! GoBama!

I've been super busy catching up- here's one of the things I made- A poster for the Black Keys' show in London- 4 colors on French Gumdrop Green paper. This thing is sick with metallic details....






Up in the Etsy shop after midnight tonight!

In Silence - Copper on Wood!

I had to run a small edition of this ultra-rad looking Metalllic Copper version of "in Silence"...on 1/2 " birch Plywood! 24 x 24 inches, edition of 12.

available now in my Etsy shop!

Conquistador- Bronze Age Colorway

I've wanted to make a new colorway print of Conquistador for a long time now and I finally made time to do it. The first edition has been pretty much sold out ( I have 3 left ) and I thought the time was nigh....

So, this one is 6 colors, all bronzes,coppers, reds and yellows and gold. Lots of overprinting goodness. I made all new separations for each layer which was fun for me as it added an element of improvisation that will keep this edition unique. Printed on 22 x 30 stonehenge "sand" 100% Rag paper, it is signed and numbered in an edition of 75.

After 4 colors:



Printing the 5th color:



Finished!





For sale NOW in my Etsy shop.

Prints, drawings, art giveaway, all sorts of stuff

So, this is a long post as I didn't really post last week at all. Too busy printing and drawing!
The week started off with shows at the Metro, and Schuba's in Chicago that I made posters for . Okkervil River on Monday at the Metro, and Crooked Fingers at Schuba's on Tuesday.

The Okkervil river poster sold out at the show, I do have more of the edition available , although they are selling extremely fast.


The Crooked Fingers poster turned out nice. So nice that I decided to make an art print version as well!





I also decided to run this contest to give away an original piece of scratchboard art, this one used for the Black Keys Boston Poster last spring. I am selling 50 random art tubes, each containing a random keys poster from the spring, a random awesome art print, and 2 other random posters or shop test prints. They are truly a steal!! I have 10 slots left , so hurry up and buy one, you could be the proud owner of this piece!


And Lastly, drawings. Lots and lots of drawings. I'm putting up 5-10 every day this week in my etsy shop , all for 50-125 bucks each. Super cheap , yes. Super great, yes. Many of these are subtle little colored pencil mixed media ink drawings, so jump on it!

The Black Keys- EJ Thomas Hall

4 color screenprint on safety orange paper for tonight's Black Keys show at the University of Akron's EJ Thomas Hall. For those of you keeping track at home , that's a dog with a housebody with a landscape of houses inside. And giant pine Trees. And Telephone poles, kinda. And Airstream trailer shoes.

Now that the show has happened , this poster is available now in my Etsy shop.

The Black Keys at the Ryman Auditorium

I was stoked to get to make a poster for this show. Wish I could be there to a) See the BK play a historic place like the Ryman and b) See JESCO WHITE, the Dancing Outlaw. (See video below!)

SO there are 2 versions- the standard version on French Orange paper, and the um, other version on this nice deep French Brown Construction paper. Available NOW in my Etsy Shop. Posters are 19 x 25 inches, signed and numbered.

And Now Ladies and Gentlemen: Mr Jesco White:

Robert Pollard's Boston Spaceships

I wish I could have actually gone to this show tonight....The new record is great!

Ah well. Here's the show poster- 4 colors, 18 x 24. 2 split fountains and a metallic gold highlight layer. I'll admit I laughed a lot when printing this poster. As usual this poster looks about 20 times better than this jpg.

Available now in my Etsy shop.

Lost Coastlines Art Print

New Art Print, 19 x 25, 4 colors, 3 of which are split fountains

available in my etsy shop

okkervil river

New poster for Okkervil River's show at the Metro

In Silence Blue Colorway

These turned out super cool. Metallic Blue!!

Up NOW in the Etsy Shop