Here’s my poster for the Edwardian Ball which will be celebrated at the Regency Ballroom on January 22 & 23, 2010.

I went for a retro Edwardian era style (1900-1910) with an influence from Gustav Klimt. Since I’m using a lot of metallic inks, I resonate with Klimt’s use of “bling” in his art.

I’ll be releasing this poster here on my site on Sunday.

Here’s some pictures of the actual print. You can see the paper is textured like watercolor paper.

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From the Edwardian Ball site:

“The award-winning Edwardian Ball transforms the historic Regency Ballroom into a garden of delights, Friday and Saturday January 22nd and 23rd, 2010. Join a magical outdoors-indoor symphony of music, theatre, dance, art, storytelling, circus arts, fashion, technology, and, of course, the art & stories of Edward Gorey.”

Edwardian Ball at The Regency

Friday & Saturday, January 22 & 23, 2010

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 90

Edition of 200

5 colors on archival cream paper

15″ x 35″

Signed and Numbered

$40 + $10 Shipping

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I designed and printed this psychedelic polliwog poster for Umphrey’s McGee with Cormeal at The Regency Ballroom, San Francisco on Saturday, January 16, 2010. The band dug it so hard they just about croaked.

Stare at this video for the full 1 and a half minutes – and then look at this poster

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A li’l zen froggy digging a dayglo Lotus in an iridescent green metallic frog-pond.

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I went for maximum Eye-Fry using an ultra powerful florescent red: I hand-mixed the red ink with extra flo’ powder, so the frog just leaps off the poster.

Blue outline for my fluorescent amphibian is mixed just right to knock your eyeballs into the Fourth Dimension. Shades optional.

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Umphrey’s McGee with Cormeal at The Regency

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 88

Edition of 150

6 colors on archival cream paper

23″ x 30″

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 87

Edition of 150

3 colors on archival cream paper

23″ x 35″

Signed and Numbered

$35 + $10 Shipping

The Firehouse Goldenvoice Series is getting mighty close to 100 posters as the end of the year approaches.

I designed this one in a 1940′s Film Noir style (complete with venetian shade shadows in the background) – a nice companion to my Moby Poster from earlier this year.

Nice thing, I got to design this on my new computer. Of course the drawing was done in the old fashioned way – with good old fashioned brush and ink. The new computer helped to put this all together. It just means less time to wait while changing my mind about colors or shapes – and of course I can watch old movies while designing to get inspired – or video chat with Chris Shaw (which just makes me laugh). So just like Brian Setzer Orchestra this poster is a mix of new and old. I’ll be posting some photos of this when I get them back from the studio later tonight or tomorrow morning so stay tuned.

The metallic gold is very heavy and runs under all the colors to make very beautiful tints and shimmers.

Here’s the images:

Firehouse Goldenvoice Series Number 86

Edition of 150

5 colors on archival cream paper

23″ x 35″

Signed and Numbered

SOLD OUT

Snoop Dogg at The Warfield 11/21/09

Firehouse Goldenvoice Poster Series number 83

22 x 33

Edition of 120

4 color silkscreen on archival cream paper

$30 + $7 Shipping