(This should have published yesterday but didn’t– go figure.)

Red and purple sunrise, Charlotte International Airport, North Carolina.

My time-zone challenged body sits here typing and gathering up pics and threads of last few days while waiting for connection to Pittsburgh after red-eye flight from San Diego.

Yes I just flew the other way on Wednesday to take up the new vertical blind cityscape mural gig and finish the Cafe Mundo mural, too– this trip isn’t for art but for family as our moving truck finally arrives today at our Pittsburgh new place, only a week late and inconveniently after I had booked the return to SD.

Since I packed it, I figured I should be the one to unpack it (both with help of course)– its the puzzle piece organization I wouldn’t wish on anyone else to deconstruct.

Its been a little crazy, for sure, but this was a project I couldn’t pass up, here’s the first pictures.

Initial paste-ups of reference photos taken by my friend Mike Brown:

Left mural panel paste-up | photos by Mike Brown

Right panel mural paste-up | photos by Mike Brown

Now here are my preliminary cartoons for the mural panels, drawn to scale (1/2″ to 1′0″) for blocking/massing purposes, not for production yet.

Left panel mural cartoon, scale 1/2\

Right panel mural cartoon, scale 1/2\

If you look close, you’ll see I’ve already edited out one building per the client’s request, but need more research to fill in the view–> see the next post for Friday night mural research pix, or what I did on the ten year anniversary of 9/11.