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trompe l’oeil detail

posted on April 11, 2011 in Analog, Murals and tagged , , , , ,    

Picture 361The other side of the arch detail from the Tuscan wine room project painted back in San Diego in 2003.
 

Tuscan wine room detail

posted on April 10, 2011 in Analog, Murals and tagged , , , , ,    

Picture 360Detail from the first of several Tuscan themed mural and faux painting projects in San Diego.
 

Mural painting film preview & premiere

posted on October 29, 2010 in Analog, Custom Art, Digital and tagged , , ,   1 Comment

Architectural rendering has been central to my work in the entertainment industry and many of my trompe l’oeil mural designs.

Trompe l’oeil window mural

posted on March 17, 2010 in Analog, Murals and tagged ,    

I want to put up some more detail pictures from the vertical blind mural project, but after some time working on other projects it seems like my mural gallery here needs a little variety right now, so I’m posting this …

Vertical blind mural, continued

posted on February 13, 2010 in Analog, Custom Art, Murals and tagged ,    

So here is the finished right hand panel of the San Diego cityscape mural, rendered with lots of patience on a set of vertical blinds for a penthouse apartment with a similar view. Each panel is approx 16′ wide x …

Return to the vertical blind cityscape mural

posted on February 3, 2010 in Analog, Murals and tagged , , , ,   2 Comments

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.

San Diego Chargers vintage logo mural

posted on December 21, 2009 in Analog, Murals and tagged , ,    

This is the other San Diego sports logo mural I painted in 2008 for Lucky D’s, a local throwback rock and roll themed sports bar in San Diego’s East Village. This is the original Chargers’ logo after they settled in …

Interior garden mural

posted on December 10, 2009 in Analog, Custom Art, Murals, Project Design and tagged , ,    

a spliced together photo that tries to capture the feeling of this full surround garden mural designed for a private master bathroom in Del Mar, California

Kids murals | ocean, rocks, beach

posted on December 8, 2009 in Analog, Kids Murals and tagged , , ,   1 Comment

This is the opposite end of the little girls’ room from the Torrey Pine sheltered reading corner, where you enter from the main house. The single door on the left is the door to the hallway; the double doors on …

Kids murals: ocean beach themed kids room

posted on December 2, 2009 in Analog, Kids Murals, Murals, Project Design and tagged , , , ,    

Fun kids mural, completely surrounding bedoom in painted beach & ocean, with this featured reading corner sheltered under Torrrey Pine tree.
 

Wall mural: Tuscan landscape through wine room window

posted on November 30, 2009 in Analog, Murals and tagged , , , ,    

Detailed trompe l’oeil architectural window emerges from a complete room faux painting treatment, opening on a Tuscan vineyard landscape.
 

Vintage San Diego Padres logo mural on brick

posted on November 29, 2009 in Analog, Murals and tagged , ,    

This is part of the Lucky D’s project, rendering vintage logos for San Diego sports teams on the newly sandblasted brick walls. The paint style is “vintage or “distressed” as if the murals had been painted a while ago and …

mural drawing | full size transfer

posted on November 29, 2009 in Analog, Murals and tagged ,    

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!

mural painting | at the beginning of the city

posted on November 29, 2009 in Analog, Murals and tagged , ,    

Here you can see the chalk drawing on the blinds before I masked off the finished sky part of the mural.

Cityscape mural on vertical blinds

posted on November 28, 2009 in Analog, Murals and tagged , , ,    

The secret? Translucent glazy colors mixed right for two trusty Iwata spray guns, and a lot of careful masking.

Mural drawing production pictures.

posted on September 21, 2009 in Analog, Murals and tagged , ,    

Picture 1938from the cityscape mural production process over the last few days, creating and perfecting the full size drawings I will use as patterns

Back for more San Diego mural

posted on September 14, 2009 in Analog, Murals and tagged , , , , ,    

highlight of mural prep last week: Friday night visit to the top of 501 West Broadway with photog Mike Brown to research the missing view

San Diego mural design with a side trip to Pittsburgh

posted on September 13, 2009 in Analog, Murals and tagged , , , ,    

Red and purple sunrise, Charlotte International Airport, North Carolina: My time-zone challenged body sits here typing, gathering pics…