Tough Call, but One of the Best Parts of My Day
I had a pretty exhilarating day. But one of the more exciting things didn't happen in the blogosphere. Mr. Lacy and I are having our dining room painted by one of our favorite local artists, Brian Barneclo. If you've ever been to Nopa, he did the amazing mural on the wall. We were eating dinner there one night and I was gazing at it adoringly, and Mr. Lacy said, "We could probably hire him to do our dining room." I freaked out at the idea and a few weeks later, here he is in our house!
We're going all out here. It's definitely the most we've ever paid for a work of art, we gave him total carte blanche and decided to screw that wussy painting-on-panels thing and told him to just paint the wall. This will be in our dining room as long as we live here. (Forever, btw. I love our house.) And because we're total nerds we set up a time lapse camera to mark each stroke. We'll post that at the end. But for now here's the before and after from today.
Before 10 a.m.:
After 4 p.m.:
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Oh my. That is so many levels of fabulous. Well done!
Posted by: Amy Muller | July 22, 2009 at 09:39 PM
Looks very cool so far. Can't wait to see the finished product!
Posted by: Drew McManus | July 22, 2009 at 09:41 PM
not a stretch to say the muller family might be at one of the first dinner parties...
Posted by: sarah lacy | July 22, 2009 at 09:43 PM
that makes two of us! i pity brian that i'm working from home tomorrow. he's going to have to shoo me out of the room
Posted by: sarah lacy | July 22, 2009 at 09:44 PM
Be sure to ask lots of questions and make little suggestions. I hear artists really like that.
Posted by: Drew McManus | July 22, 2009 at 09:48 PM
Looks great... still waiting for my invite.
Posted by: Andrew Anker | July 22, 2009 at 09:49 PM
So what are you and Mr. Lacy cooking for our first dinner party. I prefer vegetarian!
Posted by: Rick Popowitz | July 23, 2009 at 05:47 AM
Looks cool. Was there a theme? His other works seem to have one. I see the person standing in the center with arms folded in front, but can't figure out. In any event, it's the nicest dining room wall I've seen in a while. Enjoy it.
Posted by: John | July 23, 2009 at 07:04 PM
we told him to follow his vision. i think a theme will emerge more as he works. there will definitely be his usual figures/typography etc. it's about a week long project. hopefully you'll still think it's the nicest dining room wall you've seen in a while when it's done.
Posted by: sarah lacy | July 23, 2009 at 08:47 PM