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[kirkcudbright]

The next class assignment is to do a visual interpretation of a piece of music - any genre for the music, any medium for the interpretation. Previous students have done posters, animations, flip books, sculptures, etc. My inspiration (which came to me half an hour into a 7 hour drive to Ottawawa) was to do a screen print t-shirt.

You might recall that I'd planned to do a shirt for the UK bike trip, but a) I didn't have time to actually make the shirts before leaving, b) the actual route diverged from the plotted route from the very beginning, and c) it all went pear-shaped soon afterwards. But I still have the kit.

With the medium chosen, it only remains to a) pick a piece of music, b) do the visual interpretation, and c) print the shirts.

I've been playing with a number of ideas, the least odd and most developed of which are the following. For the record, I never thought I'd be posting from my sketch book, but then I never thought I'd be googling pictures of U-Haul trucks and Kermit the Frog.

Chicago.


I'd been looking at a lot of '60s Fillmore concert posters, with the warped space-filling typography. It was lyonesse's idea to add the blinking 12:00.


They Might Be Giants, "Ana Ng":



Muppet Movie soundtrack. IIRC, Fozzie drove the Studebaker, and maybe the band's bus as well, but Kermit is more anthemic. I put this song on a mix tape I made for Francie 19 years ago.


Bachman Turner Overdrive. This will be the easiest to execute in Illustrator.


I'm actively working on the latter two pieces. I'm going to have to play around a bit with shirt colors and ink colors, not to mention the actual technique of printing, so there are likely to be extra when I'm done. I'm not promising anything, but is anyone interested in a free piece of wearable art?

Comments

[deguspice.livejournal.com]

I don't think I like the "moving right along" text, because the lines of motion from the letters are not parallel to the movement of the truck. Other than that, I like the frog in the truck illustration.

[radioactiverich.livejournal.com]

I would make that last one say YOU AINT SEEN N-N-NOTHIN' YET