Apologies for the lack of updates on this site! Its been a busy and hectic summer and fall with shows, creating tickets stubs, vending, and now teaching. With a little free time before I start working on NYE ticket stub art, I’m trying to update with my summer and fall tour artwork (available here!) along with a little insight about my inspirations and progress pics.
First up is Phish’s summer tour opener at Orion Amphitheater in Huntsville, AL. For these tickets, a constellation theme seemed obvious. I used real constellations which I altered to reference several songs, with the Orion constellation altered to resemble America’s favorite drummer.
The original painting was watercolor and gouache paint. Tickets are based on PTBMs and the barcode links to the setlist on Phish.net! Prints are 11×14, signed and numbered, and limited to an edition of 50. A portion of sales will be donated to Mockingbird Foundation.
Creating the art required a lot of research into constellations, and figuring out how to alter them to work for my intended purpose. I started out with turning Orion into Fishman, switching his club into drumsticks, and his shield into a vacuum cleaner. Monoceros (unicorn) changed into an antelope (played N2!), and the Erianidus (river) constellation features a tiny Rutherford the Brave trying to cross it. The focus of the second night art turned Canis Major into Harpua, Lepus (hare) into Poster Nutbag, and Columba (dove) into a goldfish. Lastly I turned the lesser known Caelum (chisel) constellation into a megaphone. Each image was drawn with micron and then scanned and arranged digitally. The night sky was a watercolor painting.
Not just reading the book, 