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Poster finished guys, get busy Rockin!

This weekend was spent on drawing and painting the artwork for the upcoming european tour of the kickass package: Dixie Witch, Roadsaw and Sasquatch.

I decided to take another route and not go for the typical stonerrock “chicks and cars” or Fillmore hippie poster, but instead go for a camp but cool monster movie poster. Gotta love them giant bug movies in the 50′s. With the cars I gave it a 70′s twist.
Fortunately the bands liked the concept too so I’ve started drawing right away. It takes quite some time to stage a scene like this, with busted buildings, and such. Of course I spent way too much time on details that won’t be seen on the final poster, but what the hell. I painted it in black and white and colored it digitally. I know it’s unorthodox, but I like the flexibility. It’s a lot easier to change colors around afterwards when that’s all done digitally.

Here’s what it looks like in this stage.

The end of this month will see the release of the first ever official Pentagram DVD. I’m proud to say that it features my artwork on the cover. There’s a great package deal on the Metal Blade site for a combi of the DVD and a new shirt, also featuring my artwork.

Go check it out here:
The DVD/shirt deal and more info on the DVD:
http://www.metalblade.com/pentagram/

The T-shirt:
http://www.indiemerch.com/metalbladerecords/item/12437

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Let’s start with one that in the end wasn’t used. I did this pencil drawing for a flyer for the Sabbath Assembly show. The band chose for a more minimalistic approach, so I filed this one away.

….and here’s one of the last images I did for the backdrops of the Roadburn show of Pentagram. Speed-Painted in record time 2 days before I did the show.

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Damn, I was really reaching a state of panic by then and was working like a maniac trying to get stuff finished.
I used an early nineties photo for this one.
Special thanks to Jeff Lee of Pentagram Archives, who provided me with kick ass photo’s to use as source material for this show. He was a great help. Thanks brother!

I just found out I had several stages of the sketches and painting of this piece on my photo camera.

Here’s a little animation of the making of this illustration

clip on youtube

I just found some cool photo’s of my work for this year’s Roadburn festival so I thought I’d share ‘m here.

Acid king
videoshow

Pentagram
Slideshow of paintings and manipulated photo’s

Place of Skulls
Slideshow of paintings and manipulated photo’s

Candlemass
Videoshow and slideshows

Festival backdrops
Paintings, inkdrawings and photomanipulation

Day one was great.

I arrived at the same time as Pentagram. That was a fun beginning of this year’s Roadburn. I met with Bobby, Greg and new dude Albert right away. The’re great guys. It was great to see Bobby was looking good and he turned out te be a very friendly and fun guy.  He grave a great performance this night 

Today was my first videoshow and a slideshow.

The Acid King show went really well. The bright colors were obviously a good choice. They blasted of the screen.
The speed was much better than my old Acid King video. It really merged with the music now.
And of course, just as I expected, the band was great too!
I just love the extreme guitar sound that Lori produces. Great stuff.

The Pentagram show went great too. The band was brilliant! Bobby’s voice was great and Victor’s signature sound was freaking awesome.

Someone was extremely fast with uploading this. You can even see my monitors in the foreground.
The guy who filmed this little clip must have been standing right behind me.

Anyway. All in all a great first day!!

Bad news!

11 paintings ruined!

Yesterday I found out that a tipped over cokebottle had ruined 11 of my Pentagram watercolours  beyond repair. These paintings were to be used as backdrops on their Roadburn gig. Pentagram being one of my alltime fave bands, it’s quite an honor for me to do this show so you can imagine my dissapointment with this happening.

Because of time contraints, I will have to fill this huge gap with digitally made images now.

I’ll try my best to make it still look great (…and I promise it will!!) but for me, personally, it will never be as cool as I had meant it to be.

Shit happens, they say, but it’s tough to get over this one. Let me tell you!

I just finished two T-shirt designs for the upcoming tour of Knoxville, TN ‘s Place of Skulls.

The first one is an all new shirt I painted in watercolor, and the second one is a revision of my earlier design. 

Here’s a flyer I just finished of Spaghetti western rockers Spindrift.

I took the oportunity to create something in the style of  the great 60′s / early 70′s Italian posters.
The painting was done in watercolor with some touches of gouache.