Illustrating it as well: Art inspired by the music of Phish
Author: josean
I draw skulls, dinosaurs, girls, and things pertaining to Phish.
Original artwork and prints http://www.etsy.com/shop/joseeen
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Ramblings and pics https://twitter.com/joseeen
ENCORE: Cavern > Waste > Good Times Bad Times Trey teased Fire (Ohio Players) in 46 Days and Party Time. No Men In No Man’s Land was teased by Trey in Party Time as well. Plasma contained Party Time quotes and 46 Days teases. The second Chalk Dust Torture included Plasma and A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing quotes.
ENCORE: Bold As Love The lyrics in Blaze On were changed to reference Dick’s. Trey teased Fire (Ohio Players) in Drift While You’re Sleeping. Trey teased Tweezer and Carini in the soundcheck after We Are Come To Outlive Our Brains.
ENCORE: More > Say It To Me S.A.N.T.O.S. Sand was unfinished. Reba did not contain the whistling ending. Trey teased No Men In No Man’s Land in Bathtub Gin. The jam after Catapult contained Cool Amber and Mercury and Catapult quotes. Meatstick included Catapult and Lonely Trip quotes.
Prints are available in my shop as well as digital downloads of the prints. You can purchase an individual night, pick 2 or all three shows at a discount! All orders ship with a postcard miniprint of my show poster for Summer Tour 2021.
ENCORE: Fee, Wilson Forbin’s and Mockingbird were performed for the first time since July 30, 2017 (113 shows). Trey teased In Memory of Elizabeth Reed in Stash. Axilla (Part II) was performed for the first time since December 31, 1995 (855 shows). Fish mentioned Lee “Scratch” Perry (who had recently passed away) in the Hood Intro. Fee featured Trey on megaphone. This was the rescheduled date from the show that had been postponed due to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. The new date was originally supposed to occur at Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys in Stateline, NV but was changed due to wildfires in the area.
ENCORE: A Life Beyond The Dream, Tweezer Reprise Trey teased Walk This Way in Mike’s Song and Passing Through. American Woman was teased by Trey and Mike and quoted by Trey in Tweezer. Trey also teased The Lizards and Dave’s Energy Guide in Tweezer. This was the rescheduled date from the show that had been postponed due to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. The new date was originally supposed to occur at Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys in Stateline, NV but was changed due to wildfires in the area.
Prints are available in my shop as well as digital downloads of the prints. You can purchase an individual night, pick 2 or all three shows at a discount! All orders ship with a postcard miniprint of my show poster for Summer Tour 2021.
Trey teased Let It Grow in No Men In No Man’s Land. Leaves was performed for the first time since September 3, 2017 (102 shows). Trey teased Super Bad in Tube. Ha Ha Ha was performed for the first time since August 6, 2017 (105 shows). Chalk Dust Torture was unfinished.
Trey teased No Men In No Man’s Land in Back on the Train. My Friend My My Friend didn’t contain the “Myfe” ending. Trey teased L.A. Woman and Fire (Ohio Players) in Character Zero. Mr. Completely contained There is a Mountain teases from Trey and Page. Mr. Completely was teased in Crosseyed. I Always Wanted It This Way contained Mr. Completely and Crosseyed teases.
Prints are available in my shop as well as digital downloads of the prints. You can purchase an individual night, pick 2 or all three shows at a discount! All orders ship with a postcard miniprint of my show poster for Summer Tour 2021.
[1] Performed in slow, funk style [2] No whistling [3] Did not contain the intro [4] Unfinished
Llama was performed in a slow funk style. Reba did not have the whistling. Trey teased Set Your Soul Free before Melt. Scents and Subtle Sounds did not contain the intro. Chalk Dust Torture was unfinished. The soundcheck’s Funky Bitch contained alternate lyrics from Trey about riding 80 foot waves.
Scents and Subtle Sounds was only the intro. The Moma Dance had a Scents and Subtle Sounds tease and was unfinished. Mike’s Song had a Strawberry Letter 23 tease from Trey. Set Your Soul Free had teases of I’m a Man, Carini, and Linus and Lucy. The soundcheck’s jam contained Soul Planet quotes from Trey.
Prints are available in my shop as well as digital downloads of the prints. You can purchase an individual night, pick 2 or all three shows at a discount! All orders ship with a postcard miniprint of my show poster for Summer Tour 2021.
This show featured the Phish debut of Lonely Trip. Wombat had quotes and teases of You Sexy Thing, changing the lyrics to “You sexy wombat.” Meat had teases of Let’s Go Blue and You Sexy Thing. Trey teased Fire (Ohio Players) in Maze, Light, and Chalk Dust. After Maze, Trey teased and quoted You Sexy Thing. Party Time had a tease of You Sexy Thing. Chalk Dust Torture also had a tease and quote of You Sexy Thing.
Prints are available in my shop as well as digital downloads of the prints. You can purchase an individual night, pick 2 or all three shows at a discount! All orders ship with a postcard miniprint of my show poster for Hershey.
ENCORE: Drift While You’re Sleeping A Wave of Hope made its Phish debut. Trey teased Simple in Everything’s Right and Crosseyed and Painless in Down With Disease. Down With Disease was unfinished. Page teased Long Tall Glasses in Possum.
ENCORE: Contact > Slave to the Traffic Light This show featured the debut of Casual Enlightenment. Sneakin’ Sally contained a Ghost quote and a Waves tease. Makisupa referenced Sally. The second Twist contained a Twenty Years Later quote from Trey. The second Makisupa included a Bathtub Gin tease and quotes, Ghost and Martian Monster quotes, and Sally references. Trey teased Martian Monster in Most Events Aren’t Planned. The set ending Bathtub Gin contained a Ghost quote with a Sally reference.
Prints are available in my shop as well as digital downloads of the prints. You can purchase an individual night, pick 2 or all three shows at a discount! All orders ship with a postcard miniprint of my show poster for Deer Creek
2020 sucked. I wouldn’t say 2021 is a lot better, but at least we have live Phish concerts, which allows me to create new phan art prints! Most of my prints for this tour were started in early 2020, still unaware of what would occur that year. In previous years I have often done a series of posters with a common theme (check them out here:2016, 2018, 2019). It is a fun project, but involves a lot of research and preparation, and a lot of stress! I had decided back in 2019 that my next series of prints wouldn’t have a theme. This gave me the freedom to create them using different styles and mediums. I had been taking some graduate courses and was also able to apply some new and forgotten knowledge to my work!
My original plan for 2021 was to create only two posters for the shows I was attending, Hershey and Atlantic City. I’m not sure what happened, but I now have created artwork for most of the summer tour! They range in styles and sizes. Check out the gallery to see them, and scroll down to learn more about each print and where to purchase.
All Prints and postcards are available in my shop and the PhanArt Show in AC!
Summer Tour Print
This was a print that I had started working on last year, inspired by a stickerart collaboration I had drawn years ago. I liked the image due to the net imagery, which reminds me of the song “Mercury”. I’m also a big fan of space-related things, especially wormholes and black holes. The pink “worm” is actually inspired by a diagram of what a wormhole might look like!
For the first three shows of the tour, I created some postcards based on linocuts I had done not too long ago. These images were created to be used as examples of different carving styles when teaching printmaking to my students. I played with the idea of doing more in the series for the whole tour early on but decided against it. Some back issues recently returned that would have made carving and hand printing impossible. I later decided to use the images to create mini-prints on postcards, which I have often done for my prints. I’ve often heard the phrase “I love it, but I don’t know where I’ll put it” way too many times. A postcard can go up on the fridge, or framed alone or in a set! These postcards are available on their own or as a set of the first 5 shows
Nashville
Nashville’s mini print uses one of my favorite things to draw, robots! For their show at Ascend Amphitheater, some ascending robots seemed appropriate. The original drawing was ink and watercolor. This postcard is available on its own or as a set of the first 5 shows!
Deer Creek
My Deer Creek (I refuse to address it by any other name) print has quickly become one of my favorites for the tour. It was created by accident while playing around in Illustrator after learning how to actually use it! Prior to this, I had no idea how to use Illustrator and everything I knew about Photoshop was the result of trial and error. The sign and the deer were watercolor paintings, and the rest was digitally created. This was just going to be a postcard design, but I got enough feedback telling me it should also be a print. Printed on 11×17 100lb uncoated smooth paper, they are signed and numbered and limited to an edition of 50.
Hershey holds a special place in my heart for many reasons. I grew up near there, I used to work at Hersheypark during the summers in college, and it was there where I first met my wife! For this print I drew inspiration from old framed advertisements that I’d see in employee areas at Hershey. Based on an ad for Hershey’s Syrup (turns out they used to be sold in cans!), the original was an ink and gouache painting which I then scanned and digitally arranged. Prints are 11×14, printed on 110lb smooth uncoated paper. They are signed and numbered, limited to an edition of 100. I will have them with me at Hershey, and can be found walking the lot selling them. Prints are also available in my shop
Atlantic City
My AC print is another that began in 2020, revisiting an old style that I haven done in a while. It’s inspired by the song Tube, and includes many images from the song in the asteroid debris, as well as random Phish related nonsense. This probably took my the longest to draw due to the stippling style of inking found in the asteroid. The original drawing was done with Micron pens and gouache paint. The print measures 13×19 and is printed on 120 lb smooth uncoated matte paper, printed by Fireball Printing in Philadelphia. Each print is signed and numbered and limited to an edition of 100. These are now available in my shop, as well as the Phanart show in AC.
More prints and postcards coming in the near future! Be sure to follow my FB, Instagram, or Twitter for updates!
This show featured the debut of Mull. This was the rescheduled date from the show that had been postponed due to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.
This show featured the Phish debut of Evolve. Page teased “Charge!” after My Sweet One. The Birds was quoted in Birds of a Feather. Ghost and Bathtub Gin contained Mr. Completely teases. Page teased Bathtub Gin in Also Sprach Zarathustra. This was the rescheduled date from the show that had been postponed due to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.
Prints are available in my shop as well as digital downloads of the prints, and I will also have them at the Atlantic City PhanArt show on August 14th! You can purchase an individual night or both nights and save $4! All orders ship with extra goodies.
ENCORE: Sleeping Monkey > Tweezer Reprise Mike teased Buried Alive in Antelope. Tweezer contained McGrupp and Esther teases.
Prints are available in my shop as well as digital downloads of the prints, and I will also have them at the Atlantic City PhanArt show on August 14th! You can purchase an individual night or both nights and save $4! All orders ship with extra goodies.
ENCORE: Yarmouth Road, Gumbo > Character Zero Page teased Long Tall Glasses in Gumbo. This was the rescheduled date from the show that had been postponed due to coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.
