Hooray! We finished FOUR new murals in October! You can see these four big walls at the Creative Lighting building in St. Paul, MN. Murals by Chank Diesel, Adam Turman & Anne Ulku. Hooray for big art!
I’m working on FOUR new big murals for the Creative Lighting building in St. Paul, MN near 94 & Snelling. All four are still in progress, but here are some preview pics of the first mural. This one, measuring 15′ tall by 65′ wide, is a collaborative piece with Twin Cities’ poster artist and bicycle evangelist Adam Turman, one of my local art heros. He made the design and painted the lady. I made the Drunk Cowboy font and am still working on painting drop-shadows on that. We had lots of friends come out to help, too. Painting is fun. Thanks y’all!
Painting continues on this mural and the other three next week. Extra special thanks to John Wallace who came out to take these “real photographer” pictures of the painting event. For press and media inquiries into this project, please contact JudyJudyJudy.
Adam Turman working on his first big mural.
Chank rolls out some big cowboy letters.
Chank Diesel & Adam Turman
All-volunteer crew hard at work.
How about a little springtime benefit art auction to make the world a better place? Today’s good cause is charity:water and the painting I’m donating is called “A Glass of Water.” I’m selling this painting to raise money for Erica Mayer’s charity:water campaign. You could help bring clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. 100% of public donations directly fund water projects. And all you have to do is buy this neat little painting. It measures about 16″ x 22″ and is made with acrylic paint on paper, a one-of-a-kind original.
This painting is being made available directly from the artist and is available today! There’s no real structure to the auction, it’s not on eBay or anything. But if you think you might like a deep and profoundly simple piece of Chank Art, send me a tweet or an e-mail and let me know if you’d like to make a bid. I reckon I’ll let the bidding go til $250 or June 1st, whichever comes first.
The bidding is currently at $99.
How about $120? Would you pay $120 for a Chank Original painting? Let me know:) Auction ends today.
Let’s help make the world a better place with more clean and safe water!
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The “Ding” sculpture keeps moving around the Twin Cities, popping up in front of a house for a few days before moving on to the next one. I haven’t seen him in a few weeks, but he’s out there. It’s a nice public art project that actually involves the public by having them host it. He’s really nice this time of year, when it’s all grey and brown everywhere, to add a spot of bright, lively color to the scenery. Go ding go!
Okay, I think this may be my worst public art idea ever, but I had to share it with someone to get it out of my head. You might have to click on the pic to get a better, bigger view. As it turns out it’s not the child’s pose at all, it’s really the “Uttana Shishosana (Extended Puppy Pose).” This public art project is not slated for groundbreaking at this time.
Still working on that public art project. Here’s sketch #2. A bit better but still not quite right.
From my sketchbook, working on a yoga pose for a public art project. First sketch of the “pose of the child,” a failure.
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Chank’s video response to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk . Words of typographic wisdom from type designer Chank Diesel of Chank.com. Music by Pilotvibe.com.
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