Screen-print artists create pages for Adult Coloring Night
Screen-print artists create pages for Adult Coloring Night
Local artists Jon Sanchez and Jeremy Montoya have been illustrating and screen-printing concert and movie posters for a decade. Now members of the public can do their own take on the artists’ work.
Sanchez and Montoya have created coloring book pages for Adult Coloring Night on Wednesday, Dec. 20, at Tractor Brewing’s Wells Park taproom.
“They choose an artist every month to have a coloring page, and then people can come in and grab a beer and color with the artist who created the page,” Sanchez said.
Tractor asked the artists for a Christmas-themed coloring pages. Sanchez went with a “Gremlins” theme, and Montoya opted for “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” motif.
“I think as screen printers we’re superexcited to see because me and Jeremy we both illustrate and screen-print our own work so we’re excited to see how people color it, how they interpret it,” Sanchez said. “I think that will be interesting. We’re kind of laying the groundwork and then let them go crazy. ‘Gremlins’ is like my favorite Christmas movie, so I had to put them in there. I’m doing like actual Gremlins, like they’re Christmas caroling, and Jeremy did the Grinch, and it has like the little part where there’s an X-ray where his heart’s really small and his little dog is hanging off the side with his little horns.”
It all started 10 years ago when Sanchez and Montoya were doing posters to promote concerts at Sunshine Theater and Launchpad. They later began working with the Guild Cinema on movie posters, including Sanchez’s recent movie poster for the showing of “Heathers.” Sanchez has done takes on the “Alien” series and cult classics such as “Labyrinth,” “The Goonies,” “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “The Crow” and more. He also has an original piece titled “Send a Raven” inspired by the popular series “Game of Thrones.”
Montoya’s movie posters have been a big hit, including his renderings for “Pet Sematary,” “The Lost Boys,” “Mars Attacks” and “The Big Lebowski.” He also has a number of art prints and rock posters. His best-seller is his print of “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” which he continuously sells out of. Montoya is on his fourth run of the print.
“We do like 50 at a time, because screenprinting is hard,” Sanchez said. “It’s really hard to get all the colors. You gotta make a screen for color. We usually do at least 50 to make it worth our time, but the most we’ll do is 75. It kills. It’s so physical and it’s so hard to do, especially when you’re using a bunch of colors.”
Sanchez and Montoya’s work can be seen at Tractor’s Wells Park location. Their work has been hanging at the location for a little over a year. They have rotated and changed out some of the pieces over the course of the showing.
“We’re super-grateful to Tractor Brewing for being so supportive of local artists and helping to promote them and get their work out there,” Sanchez said.