really big stuff
(whaling walls and eleven feet of chipmunks)
An illustration in a book is fine, a painting over your couch is nice...
...there's something different about a life-sized whale swimming across your two year old's wall. A parade of playful critters in the party room at the rec dept. The freestanding (life-sized) Utahraptor your five year old encounters coming around the corner at the county park. The life-sized arctic wolfpack that greets the bible school attendees. And eleven feet of brown paper (laminated) that has become a lifesized look into the secret lives of chipmunks.
I actually like to work small; watercolors on 8 x 10 paper. CG on 8 x 10 200 pixel per inch files. But once in awhile, I get to cut loose and go large. Lifesized art has an impact smaller pieces don't. And if you can't fit a real horse or polar bear in your kids' bedroom, you might find room for one of these.
Murals can be:
*painted directly on the wall
*any size
*worked around obstacles like windows, shelving & furniture
*free-standing (like Raptor Red); standees are portable, and can be made of plywood, masonite or foamcore... I made several for a friend's
vacation bible school program out of refrigerator boxes (epic sized cardboard)
*portable: done on large masonite or foamcore (or 11 ft of brown paper, like the chipmunk display, and laminated)
*acrylic, house paint, craft paints (water-based, permanent paints)
*drawn in a few minutes with chalk (the orcas) and painted quickly in simple colors or carefully planned and projected (the watershed
mural for Nixon Park)
*prices vary according to complexity (number of characters, colors, background); do you want one orca, or the entire watershed of the
East Branch of the Codorus (accurate map, in perspective). A basic whale or horse on your wall: $150. The entire watershed: a couple of thousand.
Any art you see on these pages could potentially be done as a mural. For more complex pieces I do a photoshop rough, which can be worked into a photo of your wall to have a preview of the final result.
Click on the pics for more info and larger images.
...there's something different about a life-sized whale swimming across your two year old's wall. A parade of playful critters in the party room at the rec dept. The freestanding (life-sized) Utahraptor your five year old encounters coming around the corner at the county park. The life-sized arctic wolfpack that greets the bible school attendees. And eleven feet of brown paper (laminated) that has become a lifesized look into the secret lives of chipmunks.
I actually like to work small; watercolors on 8 x 10 paper. CG on 8 x 10 200 pixel per inch files. But once in awhile, I get to cut loose and go large. Lifesized art has an impact smaller pieces don't. And if you can't fit a real horse or polar bear in your kids' bedroom, you might find room for one of these.
Murals can be:
*painted directly on the wall
*any size
*worked around obstacles like windows, shelving & furniture
*free-standing (like Raptor Red); standees are portable, and can be made of plywood, masonite or foamcore... I made several for a friend's
vacation bible school program out of refrigerator boxes (epic sized cardboard)
*portable: done on large masonite or foamcore (or 11 ft of brown paper, like the chipmunk display, and laminated)
*acrylic, house paint, craft paints (water-based, permanent paints)
*drawn in a few minutes with chalk (the orcas) and painted quickly in simple colors or carefully planned and projected (the watershed
mural for Nixon Park)
*prices vary according to complexity (number of characters, colors, background); do you want one orca, or the entire watershed of the
East Branch of the Codorus (accurate map, in perspective). A basic whale or horse on your wall: $150. The entire watershed: a couple of thousand.
Any art you see on these pages could potentially be done as a mural. For more complex pieces I do a photoshop rough, which can be worked into a photo of your wall to have a preview of the final result.
Click on the pics for more info and larger images.
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