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Been so lazy. On another note, a wee poster made before the holiday for Stacy Lloyd Brown’s annual holiday show. It was good and you missed out. More to come soon.

International Beauty Saloon has two new screen printed posters up for sale, as well as reduced prices on older stock that has got to move (mostly, The Breeders and Liars posters we made for Sled Island 2009). Get it while it’s hot!

Above: One of Genevieve’s posters for sale. 50cm x 70cm. Edition of 12.

Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe, one of my fiercer addictions, combined with living in a city with one of the lesser public transport systems I know of, Edmonton, have both inspired a recent(ish) series of large drawings. They reflect the idea of impossible railway / transport systems combined with the “usual” drippy imagery that comes with my territory. They’re pretty large at 22″ x 30″, and are solely created with black ink and white gouache, my favourites!

I’m aiming at making 12 images in this series, and right now I’m at four. Could be a while still, but the idea of having them at some sort of show might not be half-bad…

Long time best friend Stacy Lloyd Brown, from Musical Chair Music, frequently asks me to make posters, packaging, and other paraphernalia for his things musicallly inclined. This here is a poster for his upcoming tour with fellow group, Machinery. We all originate from Grande Prairie, AB.

This poster is also a tribute to the great Tom Eckersley, famous poster designer for The Underground in London,UK. Can you find out which poster of his I am sniping from?

Where are you from? is a poster show being put on by good pal, and designustrator, Gabe Wong, along with around 15-20 other artists revolving around the idea of, well, where we all come from.  It opens September 4th at The ARTery, here in Edmonton. Each artist has been asked to make an image in poster-form that relates to the theme of the show, where  do we come from?

SO, I drew from a memory where I was driving my father’s truck at the tender age of 5 or so, sans seatbealt, with my dad smoking 10 sorts of cigarettes at once.  Sure, I was only sitting at the wheel for a mere few seconds, but the memory really stuck. It also struck a chord about a childhood where the duty of discovery, exploration, and most importantly, danger, are placed upon the shoulders of the child his or herself (maybe with the slightest amount of ‘adult supervision’). The poster is titled “Are we dead yet?”, alluding to the classic childhood roadtrip saying “Are we there yet?”, but with a good disregard for safety and well-being: two ingredients for a good time, something that seems to be slowly disappearing in today’s overexposed Facebooked, GPS’d, cell-phone saturated culture…

The poster is a 2 colour screen-print with only 12 copies printed in total, measuring 50cm x 70cm. If they don’t sell out at the show (most likely)  I’ll throw them online for your purchasing pleasure!

The LIARS posters that I was babbling about in the last blog post are now up for sale at the International Beauty Saloon online store. They are being sold as a set.

Also up for purchase on the site are Genevieve’s lovely posters she made for The Breeders (as seen below).

Happening tonight at the ARTLIFE Gallery in Calgary is the Sled Island Music Festival Poster Show. Every year a select number of artists are asked to design posters for some of the festival’s “bigger” acts, and this year I was lucky enough to be asked to do the posters for one of my favourite bands of recent times, Liars.

These are three colour serigraph prints made by hand by yours truly. These are printed on lovely 15″x 20″ Stonehenge paper. Sexy!

Liars’ first show is an early evening show on the 26th of June, where they play at about 8pm at an outdoor venue, thus the orange sunset / hue in the print. The next night they play a more “all ages” show, on the 27th at 1 am, therefore a night scene. Each of the posters come in editions of only 50. I will be at both Liars shows with these posters for sale. They will be going for $20 a pop! If you can’t make it to the concerts themselves, go to the ARTlife gallery tonight and scoop one up. They are selling at the gallery for $30 per print, and they only have 5 of each, so there’s a chance that they won’t last long!

This here is a poster I made recently for Edmonton’s No Hands. We weren’t sure if it was their last show or not… so we added a question mark to keep it open.