I designed and painted this 45’ x 8.5’ landscape mural in early 2022 for Detroit's beloved pizzeria, Supino Pizzeria, at their Detroit New Center location. I directly consulted with the owner and interior designer and, after a couple different directions, we decided on a sprawling landscape imagining the hills and trees of their namesake’s Italian comune, inspired by loose colored pencil, goauche, and ink travel sketchbooks and paintings. This was a fun challenge not only with researching the region, but to interpret the style with acrylic interior paint being such a flat medium, allowing myself to experiment with painting loose shapes and drawings of trees and crafting texture using a dry roller brush instead of how tight and precise most murals tend to be at large scale.
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In the finished painting, it was incredibly important to have colors that were natural and subtle and blended in with the contemporary zinc, blue-grays and browns that the interior designers and architects had imagined for the rest of the restaurant. Additionally, because the kitchen and bar looks out at the mural, I decided that my audience must be the workers and staff, as they would be the ones that would have to sit with the mural in their view during their shifts. I wanted to create a restful space for their eyes. A bartender later told me that it gave him a calming feeling to look at and that was the highest compliment I could receive.
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Rough mock-up using Procreate for iPad
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Final illustration completed in Procreate for iPad, drawn to scale, and ready to project and paint.
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