New Flyer for April 4 show at the Viking

Struggling for ideas, poor internet connection today so I gave up perusing images online. Resorted to adapting one of my original paintings for a new flyer design. Added the cat and the fish skeleton. Cropped the painting image down to an essential core. Lightened up the tone of the blue cat and added pink framed sunglasses to give it character and lighten the feeling since the background is rather somber.

A success despite a world of trouble

The following Saturday night we played at the Viking, a much better experience, the sound system was better and we had a different drummer, well drummers actually, that is a whole other story. We fired our drummer on the day of a significant gig. We managed to line up other drummers to get us through the night, the first drummer we got lined up couldn't make it for the first set, thus we recruited a second. Both drummers were notably better than what we'd had, they also knew how to play at an appropriate volume and use dynamics to fit with the band rather than continually swamping us in loud smashing drums so that we could not hear each other. So we made it through a stressful situation and are better for it. Though nervous about how things might turn out, at the end of the night the bar owner paid us more than he had agreed on before the night began so I guess he was happy enough. This is the flyer I made for this event. Mostly recycling the previous design with some minor alterations. I am hoping to come up with a new design for out next show, April 4th.

Saint Patties Day Weekend

I have continued working with the design. In this case I have modified the color scheme to be appropriate for St. Patties Day. I made the leopard pattern and the frame green, then with much cringing I inserted a couple of shamrocks, they seem inherently cheesy but nothing relates the event to the holiday more clearly or easily than these symbols. I hope I don't get my "artistic license" revoked! 

Checked in with the manager/owner? of  Red Dog, he wanted a banner to say "live" or something to indicate that it is a live performance event since a record is in the image.  Other minor changes as well. 

Music is art too!

It has been a while since I have found time to work on technology art skills. I've been busy with music lately. In fact I/we have resurected a band that we had a few years ago, The ChillKats, named after our local mountain range the Chilkat mountains.

So we had an audition at the Viking on thursday night, he liked us well enough to hire us for the only two saturday nights he has open before three of us disperse to the field for our various summer work projects. Yesterday I learned that the owner of the Red Dog was also at the Viking that night and he wants to hire us for next Saturday night, a pre St. Patties day event. So I guess the music thing is just starting to take off then we will have all summer to think about our musical direction after we get our fill of the blues.

I got the job of coming up with poster art for our fliers and also a band logo. I began by working on the most immediate need. A poster to advertise for next weekend. 

So I'm trying to work with the themes implied by the band name, CHILL; hey there's a snow flake, a COOL looking one no less, and  a cool color. KATS; there is the center scardy cat and also the very groovy leopard pattern round  the outside. It is all about music remember, and vintage music is what we are doing, from the days of ALBUMS, hey does something look reminiscent of a record in this image? See that spindle hole at center? I have combined the elements into a kind of psychedelic mandala. There you go, not much left for the imagination, except maybe some crazy ghost writing that you probably can't detect with this resolution.

Little girl pink or little boy blue for the center banner? hummmmm...