I waded through some more photos of the mural project this morning here in Las Vegas hotel room before hitting the road again and found some fun detail shots that give a good idea of both how much detail I actually put in this mural and how much extra attention was required to make clean beautiful marks on this challenging surface ( I have some more technical type pics on the blinds themselves that I’ll write about when I’m ready to relive that part– for now, I’d rather concentrate on the finished product, which makes the painting process look relatively easy and painles!)

San Diego federal buildings on left mural panel

Hyatt buildings with Coronado Island and Bridge behind

Electra residential building with Pt.Loma & Coronado in the background, as well as one of all time favorite sky painting moments

Broadway with NBC and AT&T buildings on the left mural panel

Now its time for full size drawings and paint samples!

Real quick, here are the drawings approved today to proceed. Both are hand drawn in 1′ scale on 11 x 17 paper, and manipulated old school with xerox machines, pencil on tracing vellum and ink pens over a final printout.

cityscape mural -left panel

Cityscape mural right panel

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I’ve been keeping track of the mural project at Cafe Mundo here in Banker’s Hill with my iPhone and some instant real time publishing through my pages on Facebook and Twitter, so I thought I’d catch up some our progress here before heading over to for this morning’s session.

I’ve been very pleased to work with artist Jessica Siemens, who you may remember I mentored earlier this spring in marketing her excellent work via blogging and social media on the way to her first “art fair” appearance in April at Little Italy’s ArtWalk. (For more detail on that, search for articles on Jessica over on the San Diego Finishing School site.)

Anyway, we’ve been having a blast getting to paint together (rather than working on marketing paintings together:) and we’ve been accompanied off and on by my babies, Hunter (4) and Logan (2)– no, they don’t have their own websites yet– so I hope you enjoy these pictures.

Cafe Mundo mural progress

Cafe Mundo mural painting

Mural details

Jessica paints, Hunter and Logan supervise!

Hunter practices his craft

UPDATE: on the mobile publishing thing, youcan see all the pictures I’ve taken of this project so far on my Flickr page, which I’ve got dialed in with the great Ping.fm service.

Here’s some iPhone progress pics of the Cafe Mundo mural painting from yesterday. I was playing with “real-time” publishing– these are already posted on my Facebook page via Twitter, Ping.fm and Flickr.

mural painting progress at Cafe Mundo August 12, 2009

mural painting progress at Cafe Mundo August 12, 200

I’m going to put up more of this stuff on my actual mural and faux painting blog, but since I started here and I’m still screwing with the social media hook ups, I’m putting these up here first as an antidote to the iPhone pics I sent form the jobsite this morning.

Except for the “straight line details” inside the architectural bits, drawing and inking complete, painting starts tomorrow.

If you’re in San Diego, come by Cafe Mundo, 121 Juniper Street in Banker’s Hill tomorrow morning for coffee from 8-10am and check it out.

Cafe Mundo mural in Banker's Hill, San Diego

Cafe Mundo mural in Banker's Hill, San Diego

Here’s the rendering sketch again from the last post about this mural project:

black and white concept sketch for Cafe Mundo mural

I want to thank Philly Joe Swendoza for having me on the radio tonight, live online (with recording coming!) at wsradio.com/artrocks. I had a lot of fun chatting with Phil while Logan bounced on my lap, but after all was said and done (and in bed), I had to go back over to the cafe to finish today’s faux painting punch list. What needed done was simple enough to be soothing as well, and I am again so grateful to get to just paint.

Anyway, here’s a pic of the cafe ceiling I finished today, a simple “old world” glazing job to help bring the interior color and materials palette all together.

Faux painted ceiling for Cafe Mundo in siimple water based media