This weekend San Francisco is hosting the Rugby World Cup Sevens. It debuted as an Olympic event in 2016. The teams only have seven players each (compared with traditional rugby’s 15) and each half of the game is only seven…
I recently painted my driveway. I titled the driveway art “Friday Happy Hour”. I was in the middle of a well deserved sprawl on the couch one Friday afternoon when I decided to watch a TED talk a friend had…
New Interactive Mural at Blach A group of students at Blach Intermediate School in Los Altos were tasked to help me design a school mural for their campus. They were unanimous on the following design features: 1. The artwork should…
When Martin Nova was 18 years old, and newly arrived from Michoacan, Mexico, he was picked up on a street corner by a chimney sweep for a days work. He ended up working for this chimney sweep for the next…
I recently took on three successive ceiling art projects, about two months of work. I realized my plan might be over ambitious when I turned around and tried to find an assistant to help me and discovered that many of…
We did it. Last month, I tried something new: I invited you to fund a mural project, painting a bus for the Siena Youth Center in Redwood City. I had no idea how this bus art project would turn out.…
I recently deleted all subscribers who don’t regularly read my newsletter. I want my work, the what, the how and the why to resonate and add value to you. If you are reading this, you are part of a small tribe…
Quick Quiz: Where would you prefer to send your child to school? Here: Or Here? Does one seem more kid-friendly than another? More playful? More inviting? Does investing in the aesthetics of school environments matter? When I first met with…
Last month, I was invited to China to join sixty other artists from around the world to paint on the subject of peace and transformation. The Miracle Mural project was located in Hua Quan Village, in the Jianxi province, in…
Never underestimate how attached a community can become to a mural. I learned this first hand while renovating the underwater mural at the California Pedestrian Underpass at the end of California Avenue in Palo Alto. It is a heavily used…