On the way home, early morning, southern Indiana. I look at this and think what a peaceful beginning. Diane looks at this, sees a long, lonely drive home, and says, “I’m glad I wasn’t with you.”
Speaking of “early Grohe,” Adam. Same town, a block from “Ohio and Erie Canal.” The photos on his website of a freshly finished wall are much more impressive. Still, as I was talking to Dan who’d guided me in, “We could have painted this one.”
Especially compared to the Columbus mural – amost vertical and it still looks three dimensional.
“We could have painted this one.” … ? Art thou both mad? Lifelike persons, some half in “shadowed interior space” with “sunlight” on them through the “windows” … I’ve done some scene painting in my time, but nah — this may have aged, but I find it impressive and couldn’t hold a candle to it myself. Sure, the forced theatricality of the Columbus piece “pops” more, but seriously …
“…what a peaceful beginning.” I’ve had those moments myself. And since I’m going to have to drive to Colorado with cars and/or truck at least twice sometime this winter after we vacate our house, I hope to have a similar peaceful beginning — and end!
If Dan and Mike can do murals even like early Grohe, they should quit their day jobs and go right to work. As for recent Grohe, “almost vertical and it still looks three dimensional”–it shows a complete mastery of the genre.
Once to stuff everything into your car and a second trip to bring Beth?
Not exactly. Beth will drive one car and I’ll drive a truck out. Then one or both of us will return east by air and drive our other car out with stuff we forgot to take.
At least that’s today’s plan. Next week it may change.