Murals of the past

When Guncle Randy was here, he spent some time with his life long buddy, Susie.  I dropped him off at her Kansas City home and she gave us a tour of some of the murals I had painted for her what seemed like eons ago.  We figured out it was back in 2002, not as long ago as I had guessed.  This is the master suite, and at the time, Randy helped me do the rag rolling technique on the walls, then I added the palm trees.

The kitchen was also painted with a ragged on glaze over the gold color they had applied, and I added faux bricks along with a window onto a French countryside.

It was a pleasant surprise to see them still there.  

I'd forgotten about the bricks, those were something I used to do a lot of years ago.

 

Yet another blast from the past was this little kitty.  

Back in the day, even before I was a muralist, I painted tee shirts.

Garfield was a mascot for Embassy Suites, where Susie was head of sales, and she commissioned me to make up some painted tees for her staff.

She dredged this one up to answer the door in when I came to visit.  

Funny thing, I had just met one of my son's friends the day before and got to talking about her dad who used to make wooden toys for Sliver Dollar City.  I told her that the amusement park used to send me boxes of toys and dolls to do portraits of onto tee shirts to sell there.  And she said that as a child, she had a hand painted teddy bear shirt from there. That must've been one that I had done.

So, after not thinking about those shirt paintings for ages, all of a sudden, two thoughtful remembrances came up within days.  I found it very touching to know that artwork I'd long moved on from was a fond memory for another person.