Pale Horse Design

New Wood Engraving

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:26:11 +0000

I recently received my new wood engraving piece called “The Afterlife Obsession of Hatshepsut” back from my boyz at BlackBooks Stencils and had it framed up. It’s traveling to Berlin’s Strychnin Gallery for the AP exhibit called “Edge Of Love” opening in April. See some pics of it below and purchase the dual skate decks here.

Dean Guitars Party pics w/ the Pale Horse Interns

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:32:10 +0000

Last night my 2 interns: Emily Dwyer and Sam Willey and I partied hard at the yearly Dean Guitars DOA event. The main event for Emily was getting to hang out with Michael Angelo Batio… You know the master shredder from the band Nitro that invented the double & quad guitars.

The “Double Guitar” in action!

Emily in her moments of bliss, hanging with her new soul mate.

Myself and the legendary musician, DJ, curator, promoter, Dean Guitars guru etc.: Curse Mackey.

Emily and Sam partying with beautiful Gen of the Genitorturers and friends.

Emily and Sam with the amazing Angela Ryan.

The event was at this crazy old mafia mansion looking space, so we took some dumb pictures by the statues and fountains after we drank all the free Grey Goose… It happens.

Dead Geisha Wood Engraving

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:46:59 +0000

I teamed up with BlackBooks Stencils last week to create this 12×36in. plywood engraving to send out to a friend in Japan. Thanks to Scott from Super 7 FL for hand delivering it! I’m all about the laser cut engravings these days. Such a great way to go from a digital file to something so tangible and special.

Baroness / Torche Gig Poster

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:33:49 +0000

18×24in. 3-color, screen printed gig poster on black card stock. These posters are signed, numbered and limited to 100pc. Pick one up in the online store while they last.

From Dusk Till Dawn

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:08:28 +0000

From Dusk Till Dawn T-shirt design for Fright Rags. This one should be available March 2010.

Yamantaka: Illustration

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:11:33 +0000

“Yamāntaka” was created for the ‘Gods & Monsters’ exhibit here at Pale Horse Gallery and is available as a 22×28 in. framed archival canvas print for $450. Please inquire for purchasing details. This illustration is also available in T-shirt form in the Pale Horse online store.

Yamāntaka is a Sanskrit name that literally means “Slayer of Death”. This Yamāntaka is a fear-inducing, violent, and intimidating diety who has conquered all evil spirits, including the Lord of Death, Yama. Within Buddhism, “slaying death” is actually a quality of all buddhas as they have stopped the cycle of rebirth. Yamantaka represents the goal of the journey to enlightenment. There are three types of death spoken of in the Yamāntaka Tantra: Outer death is the regular end of life, which is embodied by Yama, Lord of Death. The inner death is ignorance of the true nature of non-dual reality. Instinctive habitual grasping and aversion to real objects and subjects arises from this ignorance. The secret death is dualistic appearance on the subtlest level of clear light mind and illusory body. With the practice of Yamāntaka one overcomes those types of death and gains immortality as a Buddha.

New T-shirt Illos & Logo Designs

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:53:20 +0000

Just wanted to post up some of the t-shirt graphics and logo designs that I created last month that I’m able to show. A lot of the current projects have to stay under wraps, so it’s nice when clients let you show the artwork. I recently started a few shirts with a new client: Fright Rags who have been killer to work with so far! Below are the 1st approved designs for “From Dusk Till Dawn” and “Dead Alive”. Another rad client I’ve been able to work with recently is Dean Guitars. This shirt graphic compliments the custom Dean guitar that I designed back in October for Dean’s Six String Masterpieces. This shirt for Vitale Studios was another one that I really enjoyed. I never get tired of the propaganda / revolutionary-style artwork. Below that are some new logos for Almost Home, Zap Skimboards and Lawless Angles.

Medusa Mural: Pale Horse x Allen Hampton

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:46:40 +0000

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how the Medusa mural collab was created, so I thought I’d post some progress shots of it. This was a really fun project. I love working big, and the idea of mixing 9 feet worth of die-cut, vinyl snakes with Allen’s amazing aerosol work got me stoked! Check out the shots below to see how the concept was brought to life.

Pale Horse x ArtsProjekt x TKL

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:11:21 +0000

Stoked to finally be able to share this one online! My TKL guitar case was just launched at NAMM this year and turned out beautiful. Props to the guys at ArtsProjekt for always pushing the limits of whats possible in artist series products.

Baroness / Torche Gig Poster

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:54:27 +0000

Buy the poster here.

Good times at the Baroness and Torche show in Orlando! This one went down back in December and I forgot to post it up. Props to my good friend Asa who manages The Social in Orlando. Asa had me design this gig poster for the show and since these are 2 bands that get played a whole lot here at Pale Horse, I was stoked to do it! There are still a few of these 18×24 in. signed and numbered posters left! Get your hands on one here.

Here’s a shot of Asa (X-Pac) and Me (Nature Boy – Ric Flair)

Big ups to Kirstie for helping me sell the posters at the show, so that I could get drunk and party instead of working. Some of the Merchline crew and Owl Movement were also in the house. Thanks Nate (the beardo behind me in that pic) for getting those posters printed so quickly!

Somehow my intern Emily (the girl on the left) is way cooler than I am and is friends with Summer (Bassist) and the rest of the dudes from Baroness. She went on tour with Baroness back in the day when she played bass for The Holy Mountain. Keep an eye on Emily. She’ll be big time soon. On the right is my legendary friend Dave who used to sing in the Tampa grind band called Assück. …If ya don’t know, now ya know!