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Number 26 is about to be installed in Matteson, IL
This one tells another story of a local garage - Mahler's Garage - and how instrumental the family was in how new roads such as the Lincoln Highway could provide them with a living - as they provided disabled automobile owner's with service. It actually will be installed on the very same building so I had to paint the building correctly to make it look right!!
52 hours to paint the entire pictorial (and clean brushes) . . . Basically, this is an 8' x 18' mural. Yes, those 'photo corners' are routed, 3/4" thick HDU painted with Hammer-rite paint in 2 colors - black and silver - to give the look of a cheap pewter or tin (which the old metal ones were). I do like my 3-D elements on a mural . . . The intention was (if you haven't figuered it out yet) to make this look like a page out of a photo album . . .
As always, mural panel engineering and border work by the stellar Joe Marshall . . . my design and paint.
The design we presented is the first slide . . . The last is the finished mural - perspective fixed.
Number 27 is for the town of Mokena, IL and tells the story of another local service garage - and the farm implements it also sold. Project ends March 31, 2013 - supposed to be 33 murals in all.
[ December 05, 2012, 04:48 PM: Message edited by: Jay Allen ]
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By George Jay, you did it again. Just beautiful. Bill
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@ Bob . . . Not so fast!! Colors are MUCH tougher and I do not have enough experience to do any more than master a 9 color sepia-toned pallette!! It's only been 2 years I've been doing pictorials now and after the Park Forest mural - and how humbling the color mixing was - I'm not anxious to try that again soon!!
I sincerely appreciate the supportive remarks. You're all very good people . . . and friends to the truest level.
-------------------- Jay Allen ShawCraft Sign Co. Machesney Park, IL jallen222@aol.com http://www.shawcraft.com/
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