This is a blast from the past, 1995 to be precise. When John managed Lode they used to make flyers to get people to come to their gigs. This was for Halloween and I turned each person from the band into a pumpkin :) Inara George was the lone girl in the band and she is the SKINNY pumpkin and all the rest are the boys: Gabe Cowan, Robin Moxey and Lon Baker. Sometimes the bands artist friends would make the flyers and sometimes John would come knocking on my door to ask if I could crank out a quick flyer to advertise the band and I would happily make art for the group. We did lots of them :) I kept them all because they were so talented and I knew they would make it and they have, just not together. Good Times. This incorporates Halloween and skinny in one fell swoop for Illustration Friday's "skinny" theme. Here is Lode courtesy of Geffen Records.
1995 Valerie Walsh 
Very cool interpretation as always. Love the photo.
PS I have a copy of Inara George singing Joe Jackson's "Fools In Love". Nice.
val, i love hearing about this part of your life. xoxo
Thanks for the skinny on Lode. You managed to make this work so nicely and bring back a good memory from the past.
thats such a cool flyer and such a fabulous memory. I love the skinny pumpkin.
oh WOW, vallie! i have that INARA track, too! oh man! you are living one reeaally interesting life! ")))
i LOVE this poster...the composition, the pkins....just great! thanks so much for stopping by, vallie! :))
Val, this is so cool! Sounds like you had a blast from the past!
That's a very sweet memory of yours. And you are so creative too!
Cool Val!!!!!
fun times!
hey, thanks:)best regards.
Oh my gosh! I love the black and white poster! I don't think I have seen B&W by Valerie Walsh before. I love the pumpkin quartet! This is fun.
Very cool to see the black and white, dood. Both of them! Cool photo too- So cool to be a part of someones story, isn't it? Also cool when they are a part of ours...
dood.
Very funky flyer! Love it Valerie!
oh delight!!! love the incredible light effect and the story of the band :o)))
That's awesome. Really great work.