I painted a sign a long time ago for our family pig roast on a piece of cardboard. It was cute, then a few years in someone nabbed it from our driveway – who does that? Anyway, I owed my parents a new sign, so I decided to do this one right. I had a piece of board left over from another project, so I painted a faux-wood grain on it and then the lettering and the pig. There’s something…
I’m working on a sign for out front of Area 23. I loved getting to do some hand lettering. Below is the final sketch, which will be carved of wood and then I can paint it. I am really enjoying the hand lettering, hopefully I’ll have time to do some more projects in it.
Here are some photos, taken by myself or others, of the murals I did for Area 23, all finished!
I got the Billiards Mural up and finished! I had to take a couple last minute reference photos using their billiards table, but I’m pretty happy with how it came out. I’d like to put a frame around it to protect it a bit more, but that’s a project for later. I had a lot of fun on these two murals, I’ve love to do more of them!
The bathroom murals are finished! And we decided on names for the two rooms: Sheilas and Bruces! It makes me giggle whenever someone says “That looks more like a man than a women…” I guess it’ll be easy to tell who has never seen monty python now!
I started work on Area 23’s murals! First up: The bathrooms! I dug out our (very) old projector and had to boot up my (even older) laptop to transfer the sketches onto the wall. Kirk was kind enough to take some photos of the progress. It’s been a while since I worked in acrylics on this scale, but I love how they’re coming along.
I met with the two owners over at this new bar-in-progress called Area 23. The two guys are great, very quirky and geeky. I asked if they had need of a bartender or artist, and they mentioned that they’d like to have some artwork on the walls. I think they’ll be some fun guys to work for. I worked up some sketches for them, the one above to overlook their billiards table, and the two below to indicate the bathrooms. I took inspiration…
I did this in college, but I liked the process for this project. It was interesting to see how the picture came out in each different material.
This year’s theme for the Festival of Trees was a “Winter Wonderland”. I’m super happy with how this poster came out. I was really inspired and loved painting it. Below is the artwork before and after adding text and some snow.
I got a commission for some artwork of a few cats. She saw a painting I had done in a style of Acrylic paint on board, with Zentangle around it. One painting was of her friend’s cat, and the other is of her own two kitties. I like how they came out, especially the tortoise shell kitty. I had a lot of fun making these. It’s something I’d happily do again.