Black Sabbath NIB Collections Poster Purple or Regular variant

• 4 color cmyk + metallic gold and spot color for the border color screen print
• Printed by Baker Prints
• 24 AP’s of the regular edition
• Signed & numbered by the artist 
  
  
• 4 color cmyk + metallic gold and spot color for the border color screen print
• Printed by Baker Prints
• 7 AP’s of the purple variant
• Signed & numbered by the artist 

It was a pleasure to make this design even though it took a long time to see this actually get printed. Sometimes it’s a long and bumpy road but hell doing this for the GOAT, who’s complaining? I think the first challenge was just to maintain focused & not get overwhelmed by the fact, that this was for a such an iconic band. I guess most artists have imposter syndrome & have to deal with that annoying inner voice, that tells you: you’re a failure, etc. The real problem was the final layout & adding the text, logo. I thought I had kept enough room to make it all work but I had to remove a “floating soul” from the top of the tree & redraw that part by hand, to not disturb the textures, flow of the art. In the end I asked the help of a good friend of mine, Remi Juliebø to help out with the layout. I told him my ideas & he executed them perfectly, I can’t thank him enough for his help.

Some more info about the art:

The main figures (the androgynous child & Lucifer) are a homage, tribute to a piece by Alphonse Mucha. Besides the beautiful flow of the figures, they always struck me as sinister, so I emphasised that part & tried my best to make them my own. 

I went all in with N.I.B. as in Name In Blood: selling your soul. So I researched some genuine pacts with the devil & used one to base the handwriting on the parchment on. I like to use archetypical (Jungian) figures in my work. I used 3 figures mirroring the holy trinity: the father, the son & the (un)holy goat. The goat is also a great symbol for Black Sabbath as being the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time), plus it hints to Bill’s beard. The poppy flowers of course stand for drug use/addiction & temptation. The tree stands for BS being the trunk of Heavy music with its many branches. The Mill fitted perfectly in the composition.

Having this as my first work with/for Collections, using the devil’s pact, also expresses my desire to see this as the start of a long collaboration & no, not as selling my soul ( although the adolescent punk rocker in me probably sees it that way.

For more in depth views of this project, here’s an interview I did about the art:

https://collectionzz.com/blogs/iconic/collectionzz-x-black-sabbath-song-series