Sunday, May 20th, 2012

CHALKING UP AZ! I’m putting these events in chronological order, the most recent ones first. Good friend Jen, after doing chalk art here in Prescott with me, decided to organize a festival in Cochise County where she lives. She teaches art normally, but her small school where she taught closed. Jen, not being one to [...]

AFRICAN FOLK ART A home here in Prescott has 3 distinct wings. The main area is all African and African-inspired decor. The other 2 areas are Irish and Italian.  Those will be muraled later. Once again, I learned a lot in researching African Folk Art.  The different symbols are not just doodles. They have meaning. [...]

WW2 AVIATION MURAL Like a lot of art/murals I do, I learned a lot from this one. Not only from the art aspect, but also from a historic point of view. I learned what kind of planes were used during WW2 and which ones were considered “cool”, like the P51 Mustangs, some with big teeth [...]

SHARE THE ROAD Oops, I forgot to update my webpage right after I finished this mural, one of my favorites, here in Prescott! I just realized it so I’m doing it now. This mural is on the High Gear Bicycle Shop on Sheldon here where I live in Prescott. It is based on the cartoon [...]

GASSERS’ GARAGE This mural I just finished (2011) is on the side of a barn here in Prescott. It was inspired by this giant sign the client had gotten from her recently deceased brothers’ estate. His last name was Gasser, and he had it made to hang in this huge garage he had for all [...]

WASHINGTON SCHOOL RIPARIAN MURAL This MURAL was a trip to do. Last year it was supposed to be done but was abruptly canceled. The Highland Center was in the process of obtaining grants to have a large riparian themed mural painted on the side of the school by the area where the Highland Center conducted [...]

ENTRENCHMENT My sweet husband and I have lived in this cute little 3 bedroom bungalow style house in downtown Prescott for 2 1/2 years now. However, it is a rental. We were hemming and hawing about not signing another lease and buying something, but didn’t do that because of all of the EFFORT it would [...]

ANDERSON’S DIORAMA So for a few years now,  I’ve been doing landscape murals for Wildlife Images in Scottsdale that were painted in after some company or guy or whoever fabricated these really cool fiberglass rocks. They look super real, so strong you can dance on them yet light enough to pick up a huge boulder [...]

THE SHARE THE ROAD MURAL was inspired by a 1940′-50′s style cartoon which was created in 2003 (ish) called The Triplets of Bellville. Here is the website for the trailer:   http://www.spike.com/video/triplets-of/2477631   just in case you’re interested. Anyway, it is in Prescott on Sheldon and Mt. Vernon at High Gear Bike Shop which is [...]

The first day I worked on this mural I thought I was gonna die cause I had to stand on a 39″ ledge about 11 feet in the air and share that with a bunch of fake rocks and critters. I worked on it for 8 hours that day and it took me the next [...]