Thee Oh Sees - again!

Well The High Seas (our deceased shop/gallery) is still sort of around, only now we just help to bring bands to our far-flung shores. This is the second time we've helped to bring them over, and the second poster I've done for them, was on a bit of a 50s sci-fi buzz for this one, painting it really made me want to read more sci-fi. It's gouache but this time on beautiful, heavy, 550gsm, only-comes-in-large-expensive-sheets paper. Sooo dreamy!

I forgot to take a pic of it in progress, but here it is with some side scribbles.

Side by side

Well go and have a look in the latest edition of Volume, the NZ Herald's new weekly music magazine, page 18. It's my poster for Thee Oh Sees next to my friend Emily's poster for the Broken Heartbreakers & Bond Street Bridge tour. Her boyfriend Sam is Bond Street Bridge and she makes the art for his stuff as well as doing great prints and paintings and such, have a gander at her prolific blog here. Sam has a very funny blog too where you can read all about his many tours and listen to his lovely music, here. And the Broken Heartbreakers also have a blog worth reading, basically everyone has a blog which requires your attention.

It's exciting to see my poster actually printed out, on newsprint too, so tactile.

Thee Oh Sees poster

The High Seas is still in operation but now as a sort of promotions company/occasional record label, our latest venture is bringing over San Franciscan pop/folk/psychedelic outfit Thee Oh Sees. Oh boy!

I'm really big on alligators at the moment, they've totally superseded octopuses as my favourite aquatic animal to draw. I wanted the poster to look super summery so gave my gator a pool to lounge in. This one was done in my customary manner of scanning in pencil layers,  I love the textures it gives but it means it takes 20 or so scans and tons of layers.