So What About Psychedelic Art?

So what about Psychedelic art?

As ofter as you see art from the 60's you don't normally thing about psychedelic art.  Try this on for size Alton Kelly was a poster artist of this era who made posters for people such as Jimi Hendrix and the Doors also did this:

Thats right, the things you use to role your cigarettes, he had a big hand in that. He also was one of the founding members of Family Dog, the series of concert dances in the 60's.

What lots of people don't realize is the work that went into making the work that you saw on the posters. given that there were know computers for graphic design at this time they had to make a print all of these posters by hand.

Take Rick Griffin for example he was a fabulous artist who stated off doing hand drawn comics for a surf magazine. He had to teach him self how to print and look at the stuff he did:

Can you imagine having to print these? Having to get the registration perfect every time? To teach people about color they really should have to learn printing because the extreme amount of time that it takes just to do one poster if amazing.

If you are interested in this kind of art take a look at

Alton Kelly
Rick Griffin
Stanley Mouse