One doesn’t have to wonder why there are so many great murals in Austin…just look down at your damn self in a tshirt in January and thus the riddle is solved. Got to love places with year-round muraling, and food-trailer parks. I think there might be a link between them all.
This parking lot spider mural sat immediately next to an amazing host of food-trailers that were open until 2am, which was how late I was fiddling with things a couple nights. I had a crazy turnaround for this mural, which was preceded by me assuring the ad agency that hired me that most all of the big painting would be done in a day+ while I needed another day+ for laying in the grid and lines. This mattered because they had in turn hired a drone operator to get all the tite clips of the process from above.
The agency hired a “PA” for me, (Personal Assistant in agency parlance), who would drive off and buy me $14 dollar durian smoothies. Good god y’all. She would also bring tarps, painting supplies, extension cords, lights, leaf blowers, and the like, and I needed them all. I was told it was End Times kind of cold the week before, meaning below 32 and Texans were making a run on their Walmarts for bottled water. Not cold for me, but when I arrived it was serious rain that I had to figure out how to work around, luckily with tents and plenty of wind.
In the end, despite the wind and rain early on, it all worked out and I was happy with it. Naturally, I didn’t get around to some of the details that only I would notice, but everyone involved with the project was very happy with it.
Now, just have to figure out how to travel the world getting mural gigs on the regular. I have some brewing right now…more on that later.
