Shakedown Street

Shakedown StreetThis silkscreen print is derived from the artwork Gilbert Shelton created for the cover of Grateful Dead's album Shakedown Street of 1978 one of only three album covers that Gilbert Shelton ever created (the other two were for Texas multi instrumentalist, vocalist and bluesmen Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and for the late, great Doug Sahm of the Sir Douglas Quintet). Revisiting his original artwork, Shelton has created a wonderful original print that we

This limited edition archival digital print features artwork designed by Storm Thorgerson and his team for Disco Biscuits

Led Zeppelin's album Presence was among the first to be considered

The two prints

and goes on to heavily reference Matisse

Who's Missing was inspired by an early work of Blake's entitled Got A Girl

I decided to take a black and white photograph and hand tint it in the studio

This beautiful print has been created by Pastor using the same techniques he originally employed

and so the final concept was for a drawing in the sand

The whole album design was then hidden from public view by an opaque black shrink-wrap

the triangle and the pyramids

the pig again faced the photographers and a film crew

a dog who panted heavily