Artist Showcase: Painter + Graphic Designer David Steigerwald / Artistic Allies

Vase Head Deck by David Steigerwald — “Vase Head Deck.” Acrylic painting on old skateboard. This is a very recent painting and more represents how I got into painting and stuck with it rather than claiming the actual painting is of individual significance. Skateboarding and snowboarding have been such a big part of my life and painting on old snowboards and skateboards was a big part of how I started getting into painting. I still love the feeling of working with an old skateboard as a canvas and working in those dimensions. –David Steigerwald

Hey Moon by David Steigerwald — “Hey Moon.” 12 x 18in acrylic on stretched canvas. Part of a series called “Entanglement.” Inspired by the song it’s named after, “Hey Moon” by John Maus. The gestural figure shows my more recent direction of working with figures and objects and how to represent them. Much less definition with color carrying more of the messaging than the outlines. –David Steigerwald

Brian by David Steigerwald — “Brian.” This is a 2 x 4’ acrylic painting. It is named after the song from which the painting was inspired by: “Brian” by L.A. Witch. In a sense, it’s as simple as my interpretation of a song that really stuck with me for a while – much like how people get songs stuck in their head it was as though the visual representation of the song was stuck in my head and I needed to get it out. This piece also represents the peak of my work when working with very defined shapes and outline/meaning. –David Steigerwald

Salomon Grendys Board Mocks 1 by David Steigerwald — Salomon snowboard graphics. Chris Grenier had the chicken nugget board last year and it was called “The Six Piece.” He came to me with the concept and wanted it to say Grendy’s instead of Wendy’s. I sent a lot of variations of the graphic – I always have one that I like, but I’m not sure what they’ll like. A lot of times I’ll create a PDF booklet and isolate of the best 7, but then I’ll do a screen shot of all of the other variations in case something catches their eye.

He just asked me again this year, it’s already done. He said I don’t know what I want, but I trust you. See what you can do. We worked out this welding theme. The top sheet was pretty much me and the bottom sheet we worked on 50/50. The one this year is really cool and a lot of people are hyped on it.

Salomon Grendys Board Mocks 2 by David Steigerwald

Salomon Grendys Board Mocks 3 by David Steigerwald

Rendered Useless intro. Video animation made from stop animation and old YouTube clips filmed on my cellphone. How it was made added to the whole madness of it. Inspired by just thinking of anything maddening, advertising, insomnia, pure insanity. No rhyme, no reason. It is one of my favorite things I’ve ever made. The stop animation section was created from 4 fully filled pads of tracing paper drawing out each scene before being scanned and brought into Photoshop and stylized. –David Steigerwald

Artwork provided by the artist unless otherwise noted.

NAME: David “Davidaisy” Steigerwald
OCCUPATIONS: Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Painter
LOCATION: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
ART: Painting davidaisy.com | Graphic Design stagsdesign.com | Instagram @davidaisy

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