Sharpie Style Wall Mural

So I'm actually a few months late for posting this, but I thought I'd share since it's pretty neat. The company that commissioned this was (obviously) Infinite Auto Design. They're some pretty cool guys that were patient enough to hang out after hours so I could work on their wall. The result was a mural done all with an airbrush in the style of my sharpie art that included their company name. Looking back I should have really went crazy with color while I was up on those ladders, but live and learn! Still, it was a lot of fun and those guys gave me a nice opportunity to do something different. Working with this amount of space and an airbrush really allowed the flow to come out differently then when I've used markers in the past. I thought about that a lot while I was working on the Sharpie Mustang, and it had an influence on some of the design changes.

Sharpie Mural

Today I started yet another Sharpie job- but unlike most of the others I've done in the past, this one is on a wall in a house. The house happens to be owned by my brother Jake. Many months ago we agreed that it was a pretty cool idea to do given the large blank area in the kitchen at the end of the table. We also agreed that a new color should be put down in the area to be Sharpied... something different. So orange it was! We also agreed that it should be framed like a picture in a contrasting color when done. We masked out the area to be painted first, then rolled on a few coats over the course of a couple days to get the orange to cover evenly. I painted it when I was on 'vacation' last year, so I had some free time. That quickly changed and I was unable to manage enough time to move forward with it. With our 'deadline' nearing, I decided it must be done! And I'm sure Jake will appreciate not having a huge orange rectangle in his kitchen. So here I am laying out the rails of the design around the cross sectioned V-8 I drew initially. The V-8 was sketched out in pencil first using a small picture for reference. I did it in pencil initially because I wanted it to be as proportionally accurate as possible and as centered as possible. I went over all the lines with marker and Wa La! The beginnings of a very cool thing.