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Trailer of coming time-lapse documentary film of my 2009 San Diego cityscape mural painting project.
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Tagged vertical blinds
Architectural rendering has been central to my work in the entertainment industry and many of my trompe l’oeil mural designs.
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This is the left “panel” finished on the shop floor. There are sixty actual blinds making up the paint surface/image plane in this photo.
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This shows clearly how the drawing got made so crisp and accurately on the uneven surface of the vertical blinds: I drew it on paper first!
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Here you can see the chalk drawing on the blinds before I masked off the finished sky part of the mural.
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I like this picture to remind me of how many steps there really were in pulling this mural project off.
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Vertical blinds were extruded with 1/8″ wide grooves, making it a challenge to get down clean lines for the architectural drawing involved.
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The secret? Translucent glazy colors mixed right for two trusty Iwata spray guns, and a lot of careful masking.
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I have a a pile of stuff to sort out, so first let me share pictures of vertical-blind mural installation I just completed in San Diego.
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