Poster Art

Last week I went to the free myspace secret show in Hartford. Jason Mraz played for an hour and a half for a little over 200 fans, most of whom had been standing on the sidewalk all day in the heat. After the show there was a mad rush outside. I thought maybe Jason had made an appearance to sign autographs or something, so I followed the crowd to see what was happening. What I found was a man with a cardboard box giving out free silk screened posters. I have always had an interest in silk screened show posters. The art is usually really interesting and the way the ink sits on the paper just makes me happy. Also, having done a few myself, I know how much work goes into making them. Way better than laser prints or zeroxed flyers, in my opinion. So in any case, I immediately decided I had to have one of these posters. When I finally got up to the box, after being pushed around by screaming 13 year-old girls, the posters were gone. Insert sad face here. The next day I searched online and finally found the person who created it: OfficeSupplyArt and immediately went to Etsy, where he sells his prints. Unfortunately, here I hit another dead-end as he does not have the poster up for sale. Insert another sad face here.



This image does not do the poster any justice. It was more of a natural paper with either metallic silver ink or a gloss varnish in the lighter areas (it was hard to tell in the dark as I was being run over by the crowd).