Chuck Sperry

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Widespread Panic “Summer” Poster Wins Award – Print-athalon Achieves Hat-trick

I’m very happy to have finished the Seasons Series for Widespread Panic with my Summer print and Poster of the Week Award winner.  Y’all surprised the hell out of me with a rare (if not unheard of) hat-trick win of three Expressobean.com Poster of the Weeks in a row. When I drove the WP Summer Lady print from San Francisco to Reno with the help of good friend JC Hall of Idealposters, we were treated to ringside seats and viewed the show from bassist Dave School’s soundboard stage left. Thanks to everyone who has supported me and hung in there for a very busy and rewarding year of making Rock Poster Art. Big ups to Widespread Panic for giving me the freedom to flush out a big idea with this Seasons Series.

I’ll be showing photos of my Widespread Panic Summer Variant Editions on Saturday, July 23, 2011 and releasing these Widespread Panic Variant Editions on Sunday, July 24, 2011 at a random time.

I crossed the tape this evening, on my Summer 2011 Print-athalon, with my new Soundgarden poster, finished for the show tomorrow. (No, I can’t show you. You’ll have to be pleasantly surprised at door time tomorrow.)

My Soundgarden poster will be available through Soundgarden at the show here in San Francisco at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Thursday, July 21, 2011.

Let’s keep rocking!

L to R: Classic San Francisco Firefighter Helmet, Shriner Fez (gratis an appreciative and very thoughtful collector of my art), Appropriately numbered Berlin Firefighter Helmet (1960’s glow-in-the-dark style)

 

 

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Eddie Vedder Long Beach Poster

Here’s my Eddie Vedder Long Beach poster – designed and handprinted – full of translusent and metallic inks. I have to tell you it’s good to be back making rock posters!
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The reference in the poster is to the SurfRiders Foudation Long Beach Chapter who are fighting to “Sink the Breakwater.” The breakwater is a tidal barrier that was built across Long Beach harbor in the 1940’s. The breakwater is blocking the waves, that not only provided good surf, but provided tidal action which cleaned the environment of the beach. I asked Mr. Vedder if he minded the advocacy of this poster, and the response I got was that he totally loved the idea. So it’s Poseidon, god of the sea busting down the breakwater and bringing the surf back to Long Beach.
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Eddie Vedder, Long Beach, July 6, 2011
23 x 35
6 colors on archival cream paper
Signed and Numbered / Artist Edition of 100
SOLD OUT – Thank you!
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Here’s a digital jpeg of the same poster. It shows some of the details, but can’t show the effects of the metallic inks that the actual photograph above shows.

 

 

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