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New Lady Lamb The Beekeeper T-shirt’s

Lady Lamb The Beekeeper tshirt Design - Kris Johnsen 2013
tshirt design for Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - Kris Johnsen 2013
New t-shirt designs for my friend Lady Lamb the Beekeeper. She has 3 upcoming album release shows in New England and NY for her her first full length album ‘Ripely Pine”, You can pick these shirts up from her at any of those shows! She is also playing an instore show at the Portland Bullmoose tomorrow night. View all of her info here.

Beirut and Lady Lamb the Beekeeper Poster Process

Beirut and lady lamb the Beekeeper at State Theatre, Portland, ME. Poster Process - Kris Johnsen 2011Beirut and lady lamb the Beekeeper at State Theatre, Portland, ME. Poster Process - Kris Johnsen 2011

UPDATE: These posters are SOLD OUT! The art print from this poster is still available at my ETSY Shop here.

Here’s the finished product of my Beirut and Lady Lamb the Beekeeper poster for the State Theatre. Which happens this Friday the 29th in Portland, ME. These will be for sale at the show for the first time and will be available online on my ETSY Site after if there are any left. I’m really happy with how this poster turned out, I love the printed version even more then the digital poster. I ended up with an edition of 100 printed on Charcoal Brown French Paper. 5 color screen print. 20in-26in. Signed and numbered. The sky grey color also glows in the dark! All the text and image is hand drawn. There is also an art print version of this poster available NOW! This version has no text on it. Pick that up here.

Can you guess what HBO tv show this poster is heavily based off of? Some imagery also appears in older posters of mine and in my jewelry and accessories line collaboration with artist Hannah Tarkinson of Ponomo, called Beaux & Arrow.

Thanks so much to the State for putting on awesome shows and Lauren Wayne for letting me do stuff like this!
Beirut and lady lamb the Beekeeper at State Theatre, Portland, ME. Poster Process - Kris Johnsen 2011

Beirut and lady lamb the Beekeeper at State Theatre, Portland, ME. Poster Process - Kris Johnsen 2011

Beirut and lady lamb the Beekeeper at State Theatre, Portland, ME. Poster Process - Kris Johnsen 2011Beirut and lady lamb the Beekeeper at State Theatre, Portland, ME. Poster Process - Kris Johnsen 2011

Beirut and lady lamb the Beekeeper at State Theatre, Portland, ME. Poster Process - Kris Johnsen 2011

Beirut and lady lamb the Beekeeper at State Theatre, Portland, ME. Poster Process - Kris Johnsen 2011Beirut and lady lamb the Beekeeper at State Theatre, Portland, ME. Poster Process - Kris Johnsen 2011

Beirut and lady lamb the Beekeeper at State Theatre, Portland, ME. Poster Process - Kris Johnsen 2011

Beirut and lady lamb the Beekeeper at State Theatre, Portland, ME. Poster Process - Kris Johnsen 2011

All photos above are taken by David Zwickerhill. If your looking for a photographer around the Portland area, this is your guy!

After the jump you will find some process pictures from the making of this poster that took place the last month in Pickwick Independent Press. I also showed the process of creating the drawings of this poster a little while back here.
Beirut and lady lamb the Beekeeper at State Theatre, Portland, ME. Poster Process - Kris Johnsen 2011

Beirut and lady lamb the Beekeeper at State Theatre, Portland, ME. Poster Process - Kris Johnsen 2011
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Beirut and Lady Lamb The Beekeeper at The State Theatre Poster

Beirut and lady Lamb The Beekeeper at the State Theatre. Portland, ME - Kris Johnsen 2011

Here it is, my new poster for Beirut & lady Lamb the Beekeeper at the State Theatre. I’ve been working on this one for a little while now, pretty much since the show was booked. This allowed me to spend a lot of time drawing this out and working with the layers a great deal. I’m really happy with the result of this poster and can’t wait to screen print it in the coming weeks.

The print will be 20in.-26in. on Charcoal Brown French Paper. Edition is still undetermined and will include an art print of A smaller edition without text on the bottom.

These will go for sale after the July 29th show at the State Theatre in Portland, ME. at my ETSY Store. Thanks so much to Lauren Wayne for always hooking me up and for doing awesome things over at the State! You can view my past Lady Lamb the Beekeeper poster here.

Below you can view a few detail shots of the poster and a few drawing shots. You can also click on the poster above for a higher res image.

Please give me some Gigposters.com love!

Beirut and lady Lamb The Beekeeper at the State Theatre. Portland, ME (Detail) - Kris Johnsen 2011

Beirut and lady Lamb The Beekeeper at the State Theatre. Portland, ME (Detail) - Kris Johnsen 2011

Beirut and lady Lamb The Beekeeper at the State Theatre. Portland, ME (Detail) - Kris Johnsen 2011

Beirut and lady Lamb The Beekeeper at the State Theatre. Portland, ME (Detail) - Kris Johnsen 2011

Beirut and lady Lamb The Beekeeper at the State Theatre. Portland, ME (Detail) - Kris Johnsen 2011

Beirut and lady Lamb The Beekeeper at the State Theatre. Portland, ME (Detail) - Kris Johnsen 2011

Beirut and lady Lamb The Beekeeper at the State Theatre. Portland, ME (Detail) - Kris Johnsen 2011

Beirut and lady Lamb The Beekeeper at the State Theatre. Portland, ME (Detail) - Kris Johnsen 2011

Beirut and lady Lamb The Beekeeper at the State Theatre. Portland, ME (Detail) - Kris Johnsen 2011

If you don’t already know my friend Aly/Lady lamb the Beekeeper. I suggest looking her up, she’s amazingly talented and deserves everything she gets.

Lady Lamb Progress

Thanks to everyone who has picked up a My Morning Jacket poster or Josh Ritter one so far! It really means a lot when someone buys your work, hope everyone enjoys them as much as I do!

If you would still like to pick one up I will be at the State Theatre open House on Sunday the 17th. Come say hi!

And they are still available online at my ETSY store.

Also the Lady Lamb posters are half way printed and will be available at the show for the first time. Please pick up your tickets in advance for this show, I have a feeling it will sell out, and if it doesn’t then it should!

Lady lamb The Beekeeper Double Poster!!!

Lady Lamb The Beekeeper @ SPACE Gallery. Portland, ME - Kris Johnsen 2010

Lady Lamb The Beekeeper @ SPACE Gallery. Portland, ME - Kris Johnsen 2010
Above are the newly finished Lady Lamb The Beekeeper DOUBLE POSTERS!!! These are for her going away show at SPACE Gallery on October 29th, with Jacob Augustine, Pearl & The Beard & Panda Bandits. They are meant be go side by side, but are also separate posters. These will be a 4 color screen print and will be done shortly.

All the drawings in the posters were done by myself and Aly Spaltro, Lady Lamb herself. I just realized she has a brand new website also, you should really go check that out!

Keep an eye our for some new Lady Lamb t-shirts in the very near future also!

Lady Lamb The Beekeepeer @ SPACE Gallery. Portland, ME. - Kris Johnsen 2010

Tapes Print

Just finished up an edition of 50 Tapes Prints, This is the same print as the ted Leo posters I did a few months ago except with no show information. So you dont have to be a huge Ted Leo or Screaming Females fan to pick this one up!

I also started drawing on the first 20 prints in the edition on one of the tapes with some of my favorite local(ish) bands! I may even do more after I post this!

These will be available at Picnic which is next Saturday the 28th in Portland, Maine. And will shortly be available at my ETSY store.

Some examples of the hand drawn tapes after the printing process!

Eternal Otter Poster & Building Of Song Festival

I recently made a tshirt which turned into a poster design for Eternal Otter Records and The Building of Song Festival.

I highly support this label and the people around it, they really support all good things around town and beyond! Above is a picture of Will from Eternal Otter holding one of my multi-colored posters on the peak of Katahdin. Pretty Cool! You might also see these around town!

The Building of Song Festival is on July 3rd at Congress Square in Portland, Maine. Please read about this festival and help support the music artists playing, which I might add are some of the best around! View all of that information HERE.

Tshirts were also made!


Check out Sam James and Chriss Sutherland performing at last years festival.

And Lady Lamb The Beekeeper! Who has probably performed at every Building of Song aka Tower of Song every month since they started.

Record Covers for Eternal Otter Record’s Split of TJ Metcalfe & Aly Spaltro

Record cover design for Eternal Otter Record's Tj Metcalfe - Kris Johnsen 2010

Record cover design for Eternal Otter Record's Aly Spaltro - Kris Johnsen 2010

About a month or two ago I got the chance to design record covers for two of Portland’s finest musicians TJ Metcalfe and Aly Spaltro. Here is the result of that!
The record was put out by local record label Eternal Otter Records. It is available at these locations…
Strange Maine (578 Congress St), Time-Lag Records (578 Congress St, 2nd Floor), Madgirl World (275 Commercial St).

It is also available online at www.eternalotterrecords.com