the PORTLAND MEMORIAL OAKS BOTTOM MURAL

First off, I did not paint this. I was part of a process that helped start the project rolling in Oct of 2009. I landed the job by getting a call one day from Mark Benett the owner of ART FX Murals in Portland. He said his crew was out of town on a job and needed help getting this one started. They had been in the planning stages for this one for years. I helped him get this set up on the roof with a large 60' lift that we had to be harnessed to. I helped paint the first image on the wall which was the great Osprey to the right and the tree with the Eagles nest. Oaks Bottom is a large Wildlife Reserve in Sellwood Oregon. The building that is seen from the west hillsides, Oaks Park and the highway is the old Portland Memorial Crematorium building. It houses over 75,000 dead people. Quite an interesting juxtaposition in theme to be painted celebrating the Wildlife that surrounds the area. It is also one of the larges Murals in the country! This side of the upper terrace of the building was over 60 ft high!

MORE SIDEWALK SIGNAGE

              
 A sign I hand painted and transfered logo and lettering for a clients Rolfing Business.

 This is the only photo I have right now of the Bossanova sidewalk sign in East Portland. It was given to me. The paint I used was the industrys standard and finest" One Shot " for the Lettering and Logo. The cropping is a little weird since the paper lettering is temporarily on the door and my sign sits out of the way. Oh well..You get the idea of lettering and styles I am capable of..not that boring lifeless text on the paper covering the doorway.

MORE CHILDRENS ROOMS by the ARTFUL DRAGONFLY

Here is a simple design I did onto a wall for a returning client of mine on the west side of Portland. Its a basement room converted into a childrens nursery room. It was a pleasure to make a sun explode its rays in that space! I had to go over the design at least three or more times with low VOC interior paint to make sure it was opaque enough over the solid sky blue.

It was a design perspective to not make it too busy or overlap too many built ins on the wall areas. The composition worked out great.

SIGN PAINTING, WALL LETTERING at PACIFIC NATURAL FOODS in Tualatin Or.

I spent more than a few months working over at Pacific Foods (the place that makes hemp milk, soy, tofu, etc.). I was hired to hand paint various sizes and styles of lettering and borders in their corporate offices, lunchrooms etc.
The older part of their building complex was painted some years ago by an artist and they had since lost their contact with him so they found me! The projects went pretty smooth..I had to order a lot of paper to make my image transfers by the foot and chalking it onto the wall was tiresome, it went easier than I thought.
We had to use environmentally safe paints which i purchased from a favorite local "green" paint store called ECO HAUS (great place for everything home improvement!) in portland. I normally used One Shot oil based but I had to go with the latex based paint so it needed more than one coat. It spread on thick and had to make sure the edges were good and solid. The first two rooms went at a decent pace..I had to copy and reproduce their Vision Statement on a few walls too. I have a few more photos from my new camera here.

 Since there was only myself leveling and chalking lines on top of taping the rolls of paper transfers, tracing the outlines, it took a little more time than expected but with great results.