The mural I created, over a wall of open Silverstein books!!

I'd like to return to my blog by sharing one of the most interesting murals I'd been hired to do yet!

Near the end of this last winter I befriended a man from Chicago, who owns numerous unique businesses and was looking to open another here in downtown Nashville, TN. The theme: An adult arcade ...he named it Headquarters Beercade or also known as HQ Beercade. Specializing in hand crafted beers and mind blowing ambiances. His ideas beyond extravagant and brilliant; I had never seen anything like them. Any ways, he became aware of my artistic side and thus came the mural I created over a wall of open books....which later spilled onto the ceiling and up a stairwell and over a window...lol

So, the idea was had. He pictured a wall made of books, Shel Silverstein books to be exact and across them some image. Let me now say...I had no idea how I was going to create a wall of books with a 3D mural painted (?) over the tops of them, but I told him I could do it! I wanted so badly to have my first official mural down town historic Nashville. Before long I had drafted an image he loved and hundreds upon hundreds of Silverstein books began taking over my living room.

I convinced him to let me create the piece at home in sections that we could later transport that would fit together like puzzle pieces. (I did this so I wouldn't look dumb trying to figure out how to do it,lol ) I had to move nearly everything out of my living room, and I'm pretty sure my daughter thought I had gone mad. But in the end it some how came together without any real plan. lol I think that was the key to my success. Well, I did have to due over one section right below her nose...somehow a dog image ended up directly under her nose which looked a bit too much like a Hitler stash...but aside from that...lol SO- next, you will see a little photo timeline of the mural I created over open books. ...

And...before the nose job