Shirt design I made for Full Bleed exhibition at Roadburn festival this year.
-
-
I’m so behind with posting on Tumblr, I will try to catch up. Here are the “shirt”-versions of the “bat-agram” design I made for Perturbator.
-
Another poster that made its debut at @fullbleedexhibition :
High On Fire- “Drowning Dog”.
18x24”
9(?) color screenprint on French whitewash paper
Edition of 50 Artist Proofs
Printed by Ben LaFond
This is 1 of 2 posters I made for @highonfireband US-tour, that unfortunately had to be canceled twice due to Matt’s medical problems.
Hope that Grammy they’ve won has some healing power & HOF will be back killing it at every show around the globe.
This poster was based on the song Drowning Dog:
THE WORSHIP OF INFERAE TOMBS
A COMMUNION OF SYCOPHANTS
HOW LONG IS THE LINE TO OUR DOOM
DECEIVERS AND LYING CHANTS
CHORUS;
AND GOD DAMN YOU
YOU’RE THE SHADOWS OF MAN
AND GOD DAMN YOU
FOR IT’S KILL OR BE KILLED IN THE END
THE NUMBERS CROSSED LINES IN THE SAND
THE POOLS OF HUMAN RATS
THEIR TAILS ARE TWISTED AND TIED
EAT OF THY POISON DIVINE
CHORUS;
THE TORTURER SLOWLY BROUGHT DOOM
IRREVERANT THE INGRATE LAUGHED
MENDACIOUS AND FULL OF BLACK RANTS
DARK GRINS AND KNIVES IN BACKS
CHORUS;
END CHORUS;
TAKE WHAT IS GIVEN TO YOU—DEATH SURROUNDS YOU
STUCK LOW WITH SOULS FOR THE MOON-DEATH SURROUNDS YOU
BLACK GARBS THE HOSTING OF TWO—DEATH SURROUNDS YOU!
Having recently lost my own dog, I wanted to somehow work that wound in the art. Initially i wanted to stay away from a literal approach & asked Des if there was a deeper meaning behind the lyrics. This was his response:
“Drowning dog was actually one of my stories. An old roommate of mine had a friend who had a dog. The dog bit someone and he knew it had to be put down. So instead of taking it to the vet and having them give it a shot he decided to take the dog to the beach, walk out into the water and drown the dog. He felt the dogs life should be taken by his own hands. Pretty trippy huh? He said he wrapped his arm around the dogs neck and submerged his head watching him squirm. Once he stopped squirming he looked him in the eyes and waited for his soul to leave his body”
So that threw all my plans of using metaphors right out of the window & I just went for a full on literal approach.
-
And another poster that made its debut at @fullbleedexhibition :
High on Fire
12x27”
5(?) color screen print on French Black Licorice paper
50 AP’s
Screen printed by Ben LaFond.
Before High On Fire show at the Patronaat in Haarlem during their 20 sunless years tour, the band & I were brainstorming about posters. I showed them the WOLFBRIGADE poster I did for Roadburn 2018 to display what Burlesque of North America is capable of. The band freaked out & made it clear that they would love to use the exact design. I became excited about this idea & proposed to mirror the image and redraw the whole design to give it just that bit of difference. We both agreed to talk to the Wolfbrigade guys first & see if they were into this. At first WB was not into it but when I said I would change the wolf into a hyena (an animal Des & me both love), they gave the green light. So here it is: 2 of my favorite bands, facing each other & making what was already a bold design, that much stronger.
The art is a nod to the legendary band Discharge, who’s “Never Again” 12” depicted a photo by John Heartfield showing a dove impaled on a bayonet (photo entitled: “The Meaning of Geneva, Where Capital Lives, There Can Be No Peace”.)
When I finished the art I realized it also could be seen as a nod to the now famous Metallica shirt design “ Metal up your arse”
-
“Amanita”, color pencil & acrylics on matting board, 29-03-2019.
-
@yourbaroness and @revolvermagazine are extremely excited to announce “FULL SPECTRUM - The Art of Gold & Grey,” an album-release-night exhibition of original Baroness artwork, created by John Dyer Baizley & Marald van Haasteren at Revolver Gallery, 67 West Street, Unit 107, Brooklyn, NY immediately following the bands performance at Rough Trade. All Baroness album covers will be on display, accompanied by over 30 original drawings from Marald van Haasteren, the band’s long-time friend and frequent collaborator, who has travelled from his home in the Netherlands to join the event. Both artists will have original artwork on display and for sale, as well as prints, LPs, and other special items. The event is open to the public, and there’s no admission fee. We hope to see you all there; this will be unique one-night-only event
-
“Marrow-3”, color pencil & acrylics on matting board, 27-03-2019.
-
Second piece of “Marrow”, the name I gave to the bone/fungus series, in progress. More pieces to come!
-
Work in progress: one of a series revolving around bones/fungus. At this stage I’m pushing in the colors & fighting the black, where the highlights & color saturation has to be emphasized.
-
“Unfolding” - color pencils & acrylics on matting board, 18-03-2019