June 3, 2012 Sun­ny­vale Art & Wine Fest, Sun­ny­vale, CA
Moon­al­ice poster by Gary Hous­ton

Accord­ing to Moon­al­ice leg­end, today’s poster by Gary Hous­ton depicts Mer­lot Moon­al­ice, who aban­doned tra­di­tional tribal agri­cul­ture for a life of wine. Mer­lot set­tled right her in Sun­ny­vale, her Moon­al­ice her­itage com­bined with a per­fect cli­mate to pro­duce the world’s only smok­ing wine. Highly cov­eted in the Moon­al­ice tribe, smok­ing wine never caught on with the car­riage trade.

Since this Moon­al­ice per­for­mance is at the Sun­ny­vale Art and Wine Fes­ti­val, I decided to take a dif­fer­ent stance on the pre­sen­ta­tion. I con­cep­tu­ally focused on wine, which with it’s tra­di­tion­ally more con­ser­v­a­tive and clas­si­cal feel of imagery, led me to using an art nou­veau inspired iconog­ra­phy. Also I didn’t want the art to con­tain any black, so all of the col­oration could be pushed back. The entire image, includ­ing the let­ter­ing, was hand cut with Rubylith and an Xacto-knife, and then col­ored dig­i­tally… — Gary Houston

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