The Killers - glow in the dark The owls cross their wings

The owls cross their wings as a parallel to the crossed bones in a skull and crossbones

Above their heads is an illustrated version of a Saint-Gaudens double eagle gold coin

The night would not be forgotten as I ended up writing a screenplay of the night’s events that ended up in Todd Phillips hands and eventually became “The Hangover”

It's the same process used on my Strange Attraction prints

Fortunately their name is so evocative that inspiration was not in short supply

The Killers - glow in the dark The owls cross their wingsThe spark for this idea came to me while watching Miyazaki's Porco Rosso with my 6 year old daughter. The film is filled with all these sweeping cinematic sequences of big skies dotted with small fighter planes. I started piecing things together in my head and liked positioning a red warhawk style plane next to the words "The Killers". The rest of the necessary show info made some sense as the vapor trail. I then created a glow in the dark layer