Kings of Leon Poster West Palm Beach 2017

Kings of Leon Poster 2017 West Palm Beach, Florida

Color by Numbers

After completing three posters for Kings of Leon during their 2017 summer tour, the band reached out again and asked if I could take on a couple of their fall dates. By that point I felt like I had used up every clever angle to incorporate cherries, a recurring motif the band wanted to thread through the entire tour series. Dropping a cherry somewhere in the artwork just to check a box never sits right with me, so I went looking for a concept that could fold the motif into the core idea.

A Paint-by-Numbers Scene in West Palm Beach

This poster imagines the band inside a half-finished paint-by-numbers illustration set poolside in West Palm Beach. The sun, palms, beach ball, and minimal outlines let the viewer feel like they have stepped into an unfinished art kit. I kept most of the coloring incomplete, leaving it loose and airy. The goal was to make the entire piece feel active, energetic, and slightly interactive, as if the viewer could grab a marker and finish the coloring themselves.

Cherry Red as the Final Clue

The cherry motif appears here through a single open marker labeled Cherry Red. It anchors the direction of the piece and gives the viewer a narrative clue about what is meant to be filled in next. Rather than placing cherries as a literal object in the composition, the Cherry Red marker becomes the conceptual bridge, keeping the motif alive without repeating it in a literal or ornamental way.

Fall Tour Momentum

This poster, produced in collaboration with Nakatomi Inc., was one of two fall-tour designs that grew out of this late-season creative burst. The band responded strongly to this direction, which let the series shift into a more playful and illustrative mode while still maintaining continuity with the earlier summer-tour prints.