This one was for CCD's Album Cover-themed art show. The idea was to pick an album, and imagine the band asked you to listen to it and design the album art for them. I went with Licensed to Ill - the first album I've ever owned, and one that's been on "repeat" for most of my life. From the time I was a kid, I always found the Beastie Boys' lyrics to be really evocative. Literally every song on the album conjures some very vivid imagery, and even though its all of a bombastic, over the top, party lifestyle, that the Beasties in later years admitted was done in jest, it still kind of resonates to me when I listen today. The piece is done in pen, ink, marker and crayon. The items on the table, aside from the Beasties' licenses to ill, are all items mentioned in the songs on the album. Can you spot them all?
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