Today the Moon, Tomor­row the Sun clock

There’s a band that I really enjoy with a rather cum­ber­some name: Today the Moon, Tomor­row the Sun. They’re kind of indie elec­tro fuzz dance party rock. Or some­thing like that. They’re from the Atlanta, Geor­gia area but do make trips up the east coast, which is how I was for­tu­nate enough to see them. You should visit their site, buy their stuff, and check their sched­ule to see if they’re com­ing to a town near you. It’ll be a good time. Plus, they’re just really nice people.

When I first started these clocks, one of the first ideas I had was to make a pair of clocks based on the name of the band. I can’t say why, really. I feel like try­ing to under­stand my cre­ative process would either kill it or ren­der me com­pletely insane, so I just go with it.

Today the Moon, Tomor­row the Sun

In the back­ground, you can see some of the tools of my trade: spray bot­tle, pen­cil, eraser, ink, ash tray… Acrylic on two 8“x10” can­vases. It started out as an acci­dent but I now claim full credit for hav­ing four stars and four clouds since there are four mem­bers in the band.

The moon side.

Mooooon. It’s not made of cheese.

Supah-stah

I can’t believe Fire­fox thinks “supah” and “stah” are spelled incorrectly.

To the sun side!

The sun’ll come out, tomor­row, tomorrow

Suu­u­u­u­uun. It’s not made of mac­a­roni and cheese, despite what it looks like.

Fluffy.

I’m pretty happy with how this turned out. It’s been a long, long time since I did a paint­ing in acrylics. It was a lot of fun. You can get a lot more tex­ture and lay­ers of color with them than you can with inks. Try to layer inks too much and they end up look­ing like mud.