A mural on Cottage Street, across from the old theater on the side of Whiskerz Pub. Funded by Easthampton City Artswith the support of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Also sponsored by The Williston Northampton School and Hampton Wholesale Auto, LLC. Above photo by Bob Stern for The Republican.
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THE UNVEILING: A surprising amount of people showed up. Cool! Ice cream and cake! Cool! Check out that plaque! A few more photos on Flickr, . A few more photos on the ECA blog.
PAINTING DAY (June 1): Gosh dang I’m tired. Awesome crew of friends – Matt Dube, Barry Daggett, Sturgis Cunningham, Sarah Smith, Nate Duval, Mister Reusch, Kendra McDade, and Katherine. I can’t believe we got so much done in one day. I say again: Gosh Dang. Super-special thanks to Casey & Dave at Manchester Rental for all of their scaffolding hauling and help. Way more photos on Flickr, .
SKETCH DAYS (May 29th & 30th): Sketching took hours. Hours and lots of math. Lots of little tricks and shortcuts I was suddenly recalling from my high school freshman drafting class, back when they still taught kids on Vemco locking ruler arms. Lots of string. Lots of mistakes. I ground down 1.5 pencils and ruined 8 or 9 old Sharpies. Worked half a day on Thursday and all day Friday and still didn’t get to some of the tippity-top of the design, but on the upside we did start painting the low stuff. As you can see, the wall is so large, it even makes a Ford Festiva look small. Crazy!
COLOR TEST (May 27th, 2008): Workin’ it out on a hunk of sheetrock. Lots of trips to Florence Paint to buy them lil’ sample jars. Getting that tan/beige color turned out to be a big pain in my butt. Benjy Moore, ya’all!
PROPOSAL (late ’07): This is my proposal mockup image, bodged together in Photoshop over a photo provided by ECA. It proved to be a distorted perspective photo, so there were certain things that needed changing when paint finally started hitting the wall.
SKETCH (late ’07): Here’s my initial sketch. Sharpie pens over a bad copy of the above photo because my printer was running out of ink.
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