Tacoma Murals Program: Collaboration

Result of a collaboration between myself and Janice Warren.  We worked together on a previous mural (the 43rd Street Bridge).  I'm surprised no one has commented with positive or negative input on the site.  Perhaps that is easier to do in person.


A fair amount of people commented on previous posts on facebook of my sketch which can be found here


http://www.facebook.com/chris.sharp.798


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Tacoma Murals Project: Puyallup Ave

This is the proposal I'd like to show the Tacoma Dome District group later on in the week.  This design feels like it reflects the transit oriented, congregation, or precession of people that come in through the district daily for different events.  It evokes the dome without making any reference to it.

Tacoma Murals Project: Puyallup Ave

We are starting a new mural on the 200 block of Puyallup Ave. This blog will now serve as a public forum and solicitation of the community. the mural will be on the side of the storage box

I was so excited after I ran 12 miles I wrote the President and totally forgot about it. Stupid endorphins. I just was so jazzed about running after being a smoker. In 36 years I wouldn't have thought it was possible.

I read this letter from WWI to the President (? not sure who the President was) from a soldier. It stayed with me. The letter was extremely repetitive about kicking the Kaiser out, and listed the following: GOD, the President, and the dear old US of A.

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I almost lost my head. I put a sign up on a roof and just after putting hardware in realized the ladder was now on the other side of the sign. I took all but the center hardware out of it and turned the sign 90 degrees and perched it in a position that left it with a surprising amount of velocity once it started. The sign weighs about thirty pounds.

I had a good opening at Brooks Dental on Thursday. I did however get an odd comment... a compliment in a sense. "I really like your work, I just wish I could afford it." It's an odd thing to hear. I do have a formula or a rule of thumb that I go by and I do feel strongly that it is logical and I'm not going to change prices of paintings to a lower price in hopes that I'll start selling a lot of them. I wonder if I had a lot of money in the bank and was paying a mortgage instead of rent if that would reflect in my pricing- I wonder if it would reflect in the paintings themselves too.