Our focus is on creating art that brings believability to film and stage productions, a better work environment to your employees, as well as invites customers to come in and do business with you. Art can create a desirable destination in a mundane world. Think back to how great art created favorite places in your past. We strive to create real world art that causes your audiences, employees and customers to want to come back to you for a rewarding experience. We love taking on any and all visual design challenges that our current projects schedule will allow. Or we can put you into our calendar que. In addition to remarkable artistic talent amongst our team members, we can boast a state of the art shop that allows us to produce one of a kind art and signage and stage dressing that is much more affordable than you would imagine. You don't have to be a Rockefeller to commission our work. Take one of our recent projects, at ADP, for example. Employing trompe l'oeil (deceive the eye) techniques, as well as shop fabricated art components we created a common area indoor space that chases away the winter blues. An indoor forest if you will, a relaxing space that allows employees to take a break and get back to work with more energy. Give us your challenge, you won't be disappointed.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

  The Wasatch Legacy Mural  or  "Honoring the Past While Looking to the Future"
This mural was definately another favorite. It was also a very unique challenge because of the deadline.

 I was contacted in October of 2009 by a committee in Heber City, Utah responsible for the building of their new $63,000,000 High School.  It was to be the finest high school in the state and they were looking for an art project that could be the "crown jewel" of the new edifice.  They talked about doing three murals in what is the very grand enterance, or commons, each mural of one of the three schools that has been the home to Wasatch High over the past 100 years.  Each mural was to be done by a different artist.  I was excited to be considered as an artist for one of the murals but quietly mentioned to  one of the board that having three murals displayed immediately next to one another in different styles and in different "pallets" or color schemes might not be as successful as they might hope.  I wondered how I could talk them into doing something different so I went home and did a couple of sketches.

When I brought them back I suggested that in addition to the actual buildings we might tell the story of Wasatch High through the people and programs.
Fortunately they loved the idea and before I knew it I'd been contracted to produce the entire project, now one monumental mural 50 feet wide by 10 feet tall.
     Unfortunately, this proccess actually took several months and by the time I received the green light there were only 5 months left until deadline and the open house of the new school.  This was a project that I would have usually taken 9 months to a year to complete.
Another challenge was finding studio space big enough to stretch out a 50 foot by 11 foot canvas.  I looked all around the valley and finally found an amazing old building on old main street here in Mt. Pleasant that was 51 feet long; just barely long enough to house the giant custom "easil" I had to build for the canvas.

I worked around the clock, 6 days a week to get it done and literally finished it 2 or 3 days before it need to be installed.
Here's the finished piece

Here it is installed
Detail 1

Detail 2

Detail 3

Detail 4
Me on the right holding the edge of the canvas back


This was the letter of recommendation Principal Paul Sweat wrote for me following the project.
Pretty glowing, huh?

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