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

• updated the new mural gallery page on new #WordPress blog http://johnhiemstra.com/murals #
• last video post was to FaceBook for #SanDiego #art reception this Fri http://bit.ly/10QtT1, me, wife @sdmetalsmith, http://bedfordbuilt.com #
• I uploaded a YouTube video — Heather's LifeChain, part 3 http://bit.ly/OAIOA #
• I uploaded a YouTube video — Heather's LifeChain, part 2 http://bit.ly/2pcMhW #

I spent a few hours each of the July 4 weekend working on the sky paintings for this Friday’s reception at Coalesce, furniture designer Joseph Bedford’s gallery in Little Italy. Here’s a couple more pix I didn’t put up on the murals and faux blog, even if these paintings germinated in scenic painting with its faux style techniques and the ever popular sky mural as a ceiling and surround technique.

coliseum paintings in the loft

July 5in the studio downstairs-- thnx Jen!

almost ready to unwrap

I've been wanting to properly finish these little ones for a long time.

• complete trompe l’oeil circus #mural gallery first up on my new #WordPress portfolio site http://bit.ly/1h165m #art #lt #SanDiego artist #
• fix that link to Heather's LifeChain video http://bit.ly/6rQGs !! #
• posted second LifeChain #jewelry video http://bit.ly/qiVMT to @sdmetalsmith new #wordpress blog! #

I’m finally getting to show what I had in mind by following my own advice to my students by taking advantage of the awesome content management possibilities of the WordPress open source blogging software.

If you’ve followed my work from my earlier sutes to here, you know I have a lot of content in the process pictures and before-and-after photos of my custom mural and faux finish projects here in San Diego. For some projects I even have video, which will also be featured on here at some point.

Today, I just want to show off the slideshow/photo gallery I just (easily) made for a trompe l’oeil mural painting project I did last year for a children’s room with a circus theme. There’s 40 some pictures included, covering design drawings, samples, installation and process photos as well as multiple details of the trompe l’oeil circus tent wall treatment and the fabulous circus wagon cabinet I created with San Diego master woodworker Del Cover.

Check it out!