colorista

In the late ’80’s, when computers advanced sufficiently, I jumped right into color processing comics. At that time, I couldn’t keep up financially with the technology, but did tutor professionals while helping with set-up and flats. Unfortunately, my colorist portfolio from those days was corrupted in transition.

painted color added to a lineart poster created by Rick Griffin
It was an honor to be invited by the Rick Griffin estate to do the comix colorist thing on this poster by Griffin as part of a public promotion for the 2018 Grateful Dead Stage Art exhibition. It was really interesting to analyze Rick’s palettes and color choices while preparing this - it was important to me that I remain in character with the creators original intentions. And I was able to subtly incorporate a couple optical illusion tricks into the finish. Probably one of my most popular online pieces.

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