VOODOO DOLL

Finally it is out!!!! I really was looking Forward to this one. The design really flew just out - Voodoo is just a plain perfect theme for me. Also dig the wonderfull original "Voodoo Doll" song from Diamond Hand, a great moscow based band. They backed Ira and me up at our St. petersburg and moscow shows and did a great Job - apart from being super neat and likeable.
This release is LIMITED - only 500 copies - so be fast and order it at WILD TURTLE RECORD COMPANY in Germany.
Also dig the Label... loved to do it, since i'm a big fan of turtles!

POSTER FOR HOLY SMOKES RECS.

I knocked out this din-A 4 size design pretty fast... sketching directly on the paper with leadpencil, then inking it and finally using Grey acrylic paint for shadows and orange for Details.
man, i just love hillbillies - in all different sizes. holy smoke is a small, well VERY SMALL record Label from scotland - but they sure have good stuff... the great shiverin' sheiks have a CD out there, and also the strange blue dreams. check them out, they are great. don't know These two bands yet, but i sure would like to be there to listen to their Music.
let#s see - maybe somewhere down the line i can play with my own Hillbilly Outfit "dr. bontempi's snake oil co." together with These bands.
enough of this blabla - here you see the design and Details...


and the final Flyer (with the required changes ;-)

THE NEANDERTHALS - CAVEMAN JAMBOREE

I really was happy when guille from sleazy records asked me to do the sleeve-design for this record release: CAVEMAN JAMBOREE from the U.S. band "the neanderthals". HA! it was so clear for me to paint a cavemen couple dancing in front of a Stone-Age record Player!
i just was unsure about the technique.
here is the final printed record sleeve, front sleeve, rear sleeve and Details:



first i did These sketches:




as soon as the concept was clear - i started to try out...
somehow i opted for cut-outs first - but then discarded it...




then i did the final drawing with brush and ink on paper:




but the bigger Problem was to find the right Color combination (as always!)



finally i stuck with this one...

SOMETHING BLUE

finally it is out - the new Album of ROB HERON & THE TEA PAD ORCHESTRA! i was honored to do the design, and here we go: title is SOMETHING BLUE, referring to the well known wedding Quote. well, i guess you get the Point... here you see front sleeve, rear sleeve and Details of the finished product... i draw the whole Thing with brush and ink, the Details with fineliner. originally it was supposed to be a White cardboeard sleeve - it turned out to be brownish. i think if i knew that i would have given the blue Color a Little more intensity. but it works like this. I'm especially happy about the Little devil on the rear sleeve, sitting on his bertoia chair and Smoking a cigar!

sleeve design: RHUM RUNNERS - RHUM RHAPSODIES

exotica meets ska meets rocknroll - rodolphe guiheux from the French DOGHOUSE & BONE Label gave me this here nice assignment: designing the sleeve for Bruno longo's new band "THE RHUM RUNNERS". initially they just wanted to re-use a vintage Pulp-cover-Illustration, with just the text changed - it took some time to convince rodolphe in designing a complete new sleeve-Illustration. but finally it worked and here we go!!!! first the rough Color, then the black Background and the Details... and here it is, the final product - and maaan it is nice to have it in my Hands - go get it fast - at DOGHOUSE & BONE recs. paris, France! and dig the backsleeve!!!! :-)

GRANDMA'S HILLBILLY HUT

Here you see two preparatory designs i did, to study colors, shadow and Basic forms of a house in the countryside. In fact i made it for the set design of a childrens theatre Play called "HOTZENPLOTZ". Later on the stage director and me decided to keep it very simple and graphic and just with black and White and NO Colors at all... i will soon Show all about the final theatre set design - but here first Grandma's Hillbilly Hut - acrylics, ink and Crayon on canvas. size is about 24 x 18 cm.

HOLY SMOKIN SWAMP BOOGIE POSTER

Chris Blackmoore from Holy Smokes records in Glasgow/Scotland approached me to do a poster for his HOLY SMOKIN SWAMP BOOGIE. i knew i finally can do a drawing of a crocodile again - since i really love to draw these creatures. i suggested to do a poster that is Long in size, in fact, one din-A size cut in half, so that a crocodile can use the whole space. i painted it with black and White ink on cardboard and did the coloration with acrylics. the best Thing: the crocodile is SOLD and found a new home! SOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)