Last month, I surprised my wife Crystal with concert tickets to see one of our favorite singer / song writers of all time, RAY LaMONTAGNE . To say she was excited to go to the show is a huge understatement, and to say I was excited would be another understatement too. We had a great time, and like most amazing performers, hearing his music live was truly inspiring. I think both Crystal and I could agree that his music is definitely in our all time top 10.
And while I love attending concerts, I also really love concert poster design. I've always loved seeing artists interpret other artists through different artistic mediums, and concert poster design takes the cake for me in that department. So I thought I would throw a little something together to help remember the show (just like I did for the "She & Him" concert we went to earlier this summer) so I made this little "mock" concert poster. I let my self be inspired by the music, and the experience at the show to better help me create the artwork for this tribute poster. The original painting for this is also available in my online art store HERE . The piece does not include any of the type/text, just the art used to create the poster.
Sasquatch Strum
14" x 9 1/2"
Acrylic / Paper Collage / Burlap
2010
7 comments:
Awesome!!! I love Ray Lamontagne too. Great job.
Some great mixing of textures and I love how simple the bird is, but it reads so well!
Big Ray fan here as well!
I'm just curious as to your preliminary work for a piece like this. I figure you do thumbnails of this design first but when you start on the final do you have a rough sketch of the final and then paint and paste over it?
I would go to any concert featuring a musical Sasquatch. XD
so cool! love the burlap!
AWesome design!
Clair - Yeah, my wife and I are huge fans of his, he was amazing live!
Daniel - Thanks dude, yeah, I really wanted to play with texture and simplicity with this piece.
Jeff - Well, for this piece, I started with some thumbnails, them painted up a rough version of the poster to scale to help me work out the kinks and the composition. Then I refer to my sketch and freehand paint the poster on illustration board. I rarely sketch the design out on the final board ' canvas, instead I'll lay the sketch over the board and make a few dents in the board for scale and registration to help guide the painting.
Lady - That would be a sight to see, one no one should pass up!
Brad - Thanks man, I thought that would add an unexpected element to the piece.
Alina - Thanks.
-Nate
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