One Night Smash

2011 - 11 x 17 in.

There are posters and pictures up all over my studio and a few of them happen to be of my favorite monster Godzilla whom I guess is advertising and overall pretty gong-ho about the bands playing on his tail. The Honhee Honhee poster is from last year and the Perms poster has been up in my studio for I don't know how many years now. 

Year? - 8.5 x 11

2010 - 4 x 9 in.

 2012 - 11 x 14 in.

In this Kings Hotel poster, even though is not Godzilla, I had to take a second look when I saw it today. It's still pretty cool.

Merinuk's Huge Brains

©2011 Darren Merinuk - 11 x 17 poster

Aside from Merinuk's poster making abilities he may also have a huge brain. I'm not sure. I do know that he does have a huge collection of posters and vinyl covers that he's made throughout the years.

 

Here are a couple fabulous posters worthy of Smashmonster. The Misfists poster is from last year and my copy is a huge silk screen that I was lucky enough to stumble across while visiting my friend Frieso Boning who owns Omniscreen, who are the ones that printed this. The Brains is from right now and is all over Winnipeg as a 11 x 17 poster. I hope there is a large SS version as well. Love that Yellow, Green and Black combo. Good job! You can find Darren on Facebook.

©2010 Darren Merinuk - 15.25 x 23 in. -3 color silk screen - printed by Omniscreen

 

I CRUSH YOU! ... or did he say I love you?

We all know who this is really supposed to be! Even though it is not technically Godzilla  sans atomic breath and glowing back fins, but what other reptillian monster towers over skyscrapers, rips them in two like Lego, has a series of jets flying overhead him and can take a good wollup of ammo fire and still smile for the camera? Well at least I always thought of this Black Light poster as Godzilla, and still do. There are two posters that I take everywhere. The Roger Dean poster that came with the first art book I ever bought myself called Views and this poster called Crusher. From my bedroom studio at 14 to my present studio at 47, and every place in between, they are up on my wall.

  

Ben Grimm as the THING from The Fantastic Four 

I love comic books and I used to copy pictures from them a lot when I was a kid. It's a good exercise for eye/hand coordination. When I bought my first technical drawing ink pens, I continued to copy, but straight without any underlying framework or sketching with the pencil first and certainly without tracing..... and no whiteout!  I look back and think that it must be someone else, but there were a few others drawings done at that time with my name on it.

  

The Thing -  1977/78 - Staedtler technical pen/ink on paper - 8.5 x 11 in.