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hand painting: mars mural
As some of you know, I live near Mars, PA.
Last month I was commissioned to paint an interior mural in a restaurant there.
I used old photographs like the one here:
http://www.purvisbros.com/mars/grand07.htm
They are hanging inside the place, and belong to the historical society.
I traced the photos onto transparencies and projected them onto the wall.
I used a technique combining posterizing and an outline taught to me by a Canadian named Dan Sawatsky.
The heads on the 1907 people have been replaced with those of modern-day friends and family of the restaurant owner.
I have about 30 hours into it, and it is 5’x18′. Painted in 1-Shot lettering enamels. It is not historically accurate but it was fun.
Love….Jill
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I am depressed now Jill. You have so much talent and I feel so inadequate 😥
Well done. I love that sort of thing. Really adds character to a restaurant etc.
Love it 😉
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nice one jill…..i bet you enjoyed doing that 😀 your perspective is good too love the sky colours 😀
nik
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Jill,
that’s brill.cant think of anything else better to describe it.
think……..
BRILLIANT…
No not quitethink again…..
OK
its….BL00DY BRILLIANT.
Peter
PS bet you enjoyed doing that
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Absolutely brilliant Jill, love it
Humble Dave
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Nice work Jill.
Just one question, is there a reason for the splash of colour in what is basically a sepia image?
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quote John Childs:Just one question, is there a reason for the splash of colour in what is basically a sepia image?Artistic license I would call that John 😀
Love it Jill, I would enjoy doing a job like that.
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Nice one Jill, love doing that kinda stuff, love the way the colour accentuates everything else…..very Spielberg!(Schindlers List) 😀
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Very nice..bit like the old Letterhead ‘Wall Dogs’ 😀
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I’m loving it Jill :clap2: :thumbsup:
The kind of thing we all wish we could do ……. but can’t.
well done
Warren
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Thanks for the nice words!
I used the colors to incorporate the colors in the room, besides that I thought sepia in and of itself would turn into a "Bloody puddle of mud" as John Jordan used to say.
Bruno, funny you should say that…
Here is a link to the newspaper article on the Walldog meet I held in Mars in 2002:
http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20020820 … 20fnp3.asp
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:wow:
Awesome Jill
Great hand job!!!
Neil
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quote Neil Davey::Great hand job!!!well there’s a compliment for you Jill! 😳 :lol1:
Love the mural, it looks wonderful!
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Wonderful work Jill! I really love the splash of color on the horizon. It really brightens the presentation!
You done good, girl!!! 😀
Joe
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who’s a clever girl then.
L J
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Excellent article 😀 Isn’t Mike Meyers? from Mazeppa…I met him over here at a Letterheads meet in Leicester about 10 years ago?
Bruno
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Indeed Mike Meyer is from Minnesota.
He’s the one who introduced me to the Letterheads back in ’93.
He’s been to quite a few UK meets.
The next big meet is this August in Wales, at David Kynaston’s.
I can’t make it because I am going to a meet in New Brunswick a week earlier.
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He was there too…lovely bloke! I recall him doing a marbling demo. I won a set of chisels & we spoke on the phone a while after, but I always seem to be on holiday when the meets are on. Is he still in Llangollen or something like that?
Bruno
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He is a great fellow…immensely talented but just a "regular guy".
Here is a link to the meet info:
http://www.davidkynaston.co.uk/html/sig … ntion.html
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That sounds great…I go on holiday on the 13th 😕 😥 I worked with Neil Meliard in ’87 up in Streatham. Left & worked in Sydney for 6 months…then
he worked at the same place after I came back to the UK…small world!Bruno
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Jilly what can I say that is some satisfying achievement thanks for showing.
Lynn
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Other than my visit to Stevo 3 weeks ago, it is the most satisfying experience I’ve had in ages, Lynn!
I could have used a visit from you and Peter…I’d have had you doing wiggly lines like nobody’s business too.
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that would have been good let us know next time 😀
Lynn xx
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sorry p.s. to last post I can do straight lines as well 🙄
Lynn
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Excellent work Jill… well done! 😉
no wonder your have been so busy lately… 😀
ide imagine it would, but did it take long from start to finish?
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30 hours start to finish.
I charged $1500.
It’s probably worth more but it was great community exposure.
The last day, a fellow Letterhead chick/Sign Gal, Bobbie Rochow, drove 2 hours to help me with the lines.
Thanks for all the comments!
It was so much fun I’d probably have done it for free.
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Great stuff Jilly. You should have sneakily included yourself in there somewhere. 😀
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…I did put in the head of an alien in the window of the building by the undertaker’s.
People were bugging me to do it.
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quote Jillbeans:…I did put in the head of an alien in the window of the building by the undertaker’s.
People were bugging me to do it.
Love….JillSo you managed to fit Andys head in there then :lol1:
(Sorry Andy, I never like to miss an opportunity 😳 )
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Mate, if I was in there Jilly could have charged DOUBLE. 😉
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Fabulous work Jill, really nice.
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that is a lot of work! i bet you were glad to have finished too right!! standing for so long and concentrating on those straight lines…
still you look like you were having a blast on the pic of your avatar!!!
thanks for sharing.
bernardo
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I would say as usual great work but this mural is beyond that compliment, fantastic work sounds a bit closer, just wish I had an ounce of you brush talent.
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I feel totally inadequate now as well, I love looking at this sort of thing but it always leaves me wishing that I could do something half as good.
it makes me glad I used to refer to myself as a signmaker and not a sign writer, thats in a totally different league from anything I have ever done.
Jill thanks for sharing the pictures with us all. hopefully it will be there for many years for people to admire.
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