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Prints for the GSD&M art show

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Posters on top row designed by Sanctuary artists. Display at GSD&M.

September 19th marked the opening of GSD&M’s rock poster-themed art gallery. Once accepting our invitation to participate, the Sanctuary creative team each began designing their one-of-a-kind posters. Displayed on the top row above, each designer was pleased with how his piece turned out. Check out details on each design and print plus more pictures from the show below!

The Black Angels by Anthony Sanchez: “More times than not, imagery associated with The Black Angels is one of psychedelia. While I think this type of representation reflects the band well, I wanted to take a little bit of a side step to that general interpretation of how the public sees this band. I guess in general, I wanted to take what The Black Angels sound and vision is to me and use my voice to create a poster that I would love to see and own, also create. I used the idea of a fine leather bound book. I wanted the representation of the book to be enough that one might associate that with the bible but vague enough to see that it may just be a leather book. The creating of the ‘logo’ or the bands name was something that I was seeking to get just right. I wanted to create the look of inset type or something embossed. This poster was created with only the use of two colors, white and metallic gold. I used the process of half-toning both the white and the gold in a way that when they combined that they would create the look I was after. Specifically, in the lettering, I manipulated the halftones to create three colors, the white highlight. gold inner shadow, and the black low light to push the text into the ‘book’. The size of the poster is 13″x20″ and was hand printed, being signed and numbered in a series of 25. This poster will never be reprinted.

Dana Falconberry by Dan Grissom: “I wanted to go with a mysterious, religious icon feel for this poster. I found one of Dana’s press photos taken by Sierra DaSilva that worked perfectly as the focal point. To create an older look, I used an etching halftone method on Dana’s face instead of the standard dot halftone. So as not to detract from the image, I kept the text simple and classic. This was a three color print using burgundy, metallic gold, and teal on French Speckletone Cream paper.”

Eagle Eye Williamson by Jed Taylor: Eagle Eye Williamson is a friend and great musician. He spoke of his new album Black Gold II and that’s really all it took. EEW has a Native American feel to his art and a beat to his music that are truly inspiring. I have been dying to print on gold paper again, and this poster was the perfect opportunity. Printed with black, red and white flat ink, it came out just how I wanted. Always thankful for the opportunity to create an art piece, especially for the likes of GSD&M.

The Faint by Lance McIlhaney: “The Faint is one of my favorite bands, and Danse Macabre is in my top 5 favorite albums so I jumped at the chance to work on this tour. The Faint is glitchy, unique and raw so I wanted to do something that sort of captures the spirit of their sound. Clean, vector, heavy concept based posters are very popular right now, so I chose to flip the norm and do something more guttural and DIY. The entire thing was drawn with a sharpie, cleaned up a bit in photoshop, watercolor added and printed in 4 color process print. This was truly one of the most selfish posters I have ever made, with zero intentions of pleasing anybody else. Sometimes you just gotta release the fury.

 

 


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