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Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys

Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys are a band from Boston.  I heard them while I was in Manhatten when they played at Cynthia von Buhler's birthday party.  They play dadaistic steamcrunk and were nominated for this year's Boston Music Awards.

This was made with house paint (and sandpaper), oil paint, woodcut for the tentacles, acrylic, and finally some Photoshop to make the text.

I left blank space along the top for a venue name and dates could be put in the bottom left.

Army of Toys Color Alts

Without text

blue paper

white paper

 

 

 

yellow paper

messy text

messy w/ yellow paper

Army of Toys WiP 1

For my Poster Design class, we are doing gig posters, so I decided to do Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys, who I heard back in October when I went to New York.

I was going to go with a straight-forward idea of a group of broken toys and use Tinkertoys and blocks as letters.  Then I found pictures from the Island of the Dolls and thought maybe I'd do something with creepy dolls.  Based on my professor's suggestion of just using a single doll head and maybe putting the text in the hair, I made this, combining that idea and the band's motif of squids in their publicity photos.

I'm not sure if I'm going to make the text separate using a preexisting font, or try to make the test more of the piece.

I am going to use printmaking to make the final piece.

Trick 'R Treat Movie Poster

Our assignment for the movie poster was given at the start of October, so of course I had to choose a Halloween movie.  I originally was just going to do a picture of Sam(haim) with the broken lollipop in front of his face, but I ended up using a composition based on a penny dreadful cover.  The original image of Sam was them put up in the frame. 

If you haven't seen Trick 'R Treat, it is an anthology of four interweaving stories that are all witnessed (or caused by) Sam, a cute little trick-or-treater that will make you terrified of Sackboy from Little Big Planet.  I had to sleep with the lights on the first time I saw it.

I had a lot of fun watercoloring it to look old and destroyed.  This is done in watercolor, ink, and colored pencil.

ART Cabaret Poster

I am taking a poster design class this semester and our first assignment was a musical/play/stage show.  Amanda Palmer had been mentioning on Twitter about her being cast as the Emcee in the American Repertory Theatr's production of Cabaret.  It seemed an obvious choice after three days of trying to narrow it down from Dracula, REPO!, and whatever my other idea was.
I couldn't find photos from the show, so I used stock from kirilee and wineglass-stock on deviantART for the side girls.

This was done in oil paint, watercolor, and mostly colored pencil.