"Oh! Whiskey"
I walked up the mountain
I was trying to find God
I walked so long I got caught in a fog
Now I'm so high, God, it hurts to come down
Whiskey, keep my feet off the ground."
"Steam Rising"
Skin sheds like leaves from the dogwood trees
You eat the scraps as they fall from the table tops
"Under Tow"
There's evil spirits here
Lord, I can see them oh so clear
They hand me down my paycheck and take my soul
They're giving me money, but they're after my soul
In preparation of my band's, Colonel Gentleman and the Intangible Fancies, upcoming E. P. release, I went ahead and designed three gig posters for a currently not booked E. P. release show. I repeat: The dates and location for this show are fictional, and were only put as place holders for design purposes.
The idea was to create a gig poster for each song from the E. P. (I still have one left to finish.) The posters will be placed around town as advertisements for the show, and will be given away as part of an imdi go-go campaign. The remaining prints will be sold at the show.
For these gig posters, I pulled inspiration from the recordings, and each poster illustrates a line or two from a different song. I've always had this idea to create a music video for "Oh! Whiskey," the disc's title track, using felt board illustrations reminiscent of those used in Sunday School. I decided to use the gig posters and the album art to test out this aesthetic. I illustrated each poster in Adobe Illustrator, then exported to Photoshop. I picked up a bunch of felt sheets from Michaels, scanned them in, then filled each color in Photoshop with the felt texture.
The title track from "Oh! Whiskey" can be heard here .
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