tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42757984181772848692024-02-19T06:47:37.867-08:00The Talking WallsLife as a Muralist Corie Hintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239120092793147515noreply@blogger.comBlogger168125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275798418177284869.post-31765161374218771182019-03-08T12:31:00.000-08:002019-03-08T13:15:50.755-08:00A pair of nursery murals and... an announcement!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, I'm betting with a subject line like that, you can probably guess what the "announcement" part is..... I'm pregnant! I'm due in June and my husband and I cannot wait to meet our little one. :) We both have pictured ourselves as parents, and it's hard to believe that it's actually happening! Be sure to check back soon - the next thing I'm posting is our little boo's bedroom wall (because of course that was going to get mural-ed). Exciting times ahead!!</div>
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There's a cute mural-related part of the story too: I share a due date with a client of mine! I worked for this family about a year and a half ago, on their first child's bedroom. They wanted a more simple, subtle look as the backdrop to baby girl's crib (the first two pics below are that first mural). The room was already painted in a light neutral grey, and they asked that I use colors from the rest of the color swatches within that paint chip to create a northwest-y mountain-scape. We added some strong fir trees dotting the hillsides. I love that it's whimsical, but also so classic and simple - it doesn't shout for attention (very unlike what I'll be showing you for our little one's wall - but I mean, it's my job - how could I NOT go all out in my own house?!). </div>
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When this lovely client reached out to me again recently to tell me that she's pregnant with her second babe, and wanted me to paint another room, I was so excited! I shared with her that I'm pregnant as well, we found out we are due within a couple of days of each other. The universe is so cool sometimes. </div>
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For the second mural, we stuck to the same color palette and nature theme, only this time, with birch trees (third picture down). I have to admit, working with house paint is such a different animal. It dries like 4 shades darker than you see in the can when it's wet... messes with my mind! But I do love it for projects like these. There's really nothing better than cans of quality interior paint when you want a very flat and even finish. We used Benjamin Moore's Natura paint. Did you know Benjamin Moore eliminated VOC's (Volatile Organic Compounds - the ozone depleting nasties that get released) from ALL their paint about 6 years ago? That was an awesome thing to find out at the paint store. I'll definitely be using their paint even beyond pregnancy, knowing that. It was fun working in this style, too. There's something really meditative about just focusing on painting flat shapes. And I think there's something meditative about how they look when they're done, too. These two little rooms feel so peaceful to me. And how cute that they even go together?! I love it. </div>
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Happy almost-Spring from your growin' muralist friend,</div>
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<br />Corie Hintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239120092793147515noreply@blogger.com2Portland, OR, USA45.5122308 -122.6587185000000245.1563568 -123.30416550000002 45.8681048 -122.01327150000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275798418177284869.post-19571407195668592122018-09-21T14:36:00.000-07:002018-09-26T08:40:40.939-07:00Highland Elementary Mural with students<div class="m_-516574694030532858gmail-p1" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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As promised, I'm slowly getting current - sharing stories about older projects. This is a mural I made in collaboration with three ambitious and passionate 4th grade teachers, and three classrooms full of young minds, in Gresham, Oregon. If you're been following me for a bit, you might remember <a href="http://thetalkingwallsmurals.blogspot.com/2017/07/i-am-muralist-social-justice-mural-with.html">this project from last year.</a> Yep, same school - but different hallway and different kiddos.<br />
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About 5-ish years ago, I was a Teaching Artist with Lane Arts Council in Eugene. I would go into schools and make murals with students. Sometimes with one classroom and sometimes with every kid in the school. It was a ton of work. And it wasn't quite a way to make a living. But I suuuure do miss it sometimes! I've been trying to do one of these volunteer projects per year, to get my fix. Read on, to learn how we made this year's mural.<br />
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I think my philosophy on mural-making with kids, stemmed partially from the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps' approach to international and community development was drilled into me from my years as a peace corps volunteer. You enter a community (in this case, the school/classroom) to do a project (mural), and you must first get buy-in from them if the project is going to go well. A good recipe for community development, and for getting kids on your side when doing murals together, is to INVOLVE them, rather than tell them what they should do. It works like this: Kids help you decide what to paint, and why. Therefore, they CARE. Therefore, they are PERFECT ANGELS for you while you paint (this was certainly the case during the last two murals I did in this school, where I was adamant about this process.) Therefore, they treat the mural with respect and pride when it's finished, and build some self-confidence in the process. While painting the mural, I try to keep my hands off it, save for fixing minor drips and splashes. But I'm not gonna go in and render out a perfect flower, over the top of one that five kids created together over the course of an hour. Kids make it = kids take pride in it. <br />
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Here is how we made a mural design with three classrooms full of kids. I asked the three teachers to come up with a very broad theme that we could use to prompt the kids to think of imagery. They chose this quote by Gandhi: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." The teachers had also been talking a lot about the idea of "using our voices." Pretty broad, right? But timely. Important. Big. Each kid was assigned to write and draw about what this means to them. I then took all of those assignments, and checked for re-occurring imagery, or words that could become imagery. Here's what came up:<br />
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<b>Kids expressed using their voices through:</b><br />
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Art (fitting, right?) <br />
Music <br />
Writing <br />
Kindness and anti-bullying <br />
Speech/activism - this came up a lot in various forms. Some kids even specified: Black Lives Matter, immigration rights, "love is love", etc. <br />
Keeping their environment clean and "green" <br />
Learning and school <br />
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<b>Imagery that came up a lot:</b><br />
Hearts <br />
rainbows <br />
Hand-holding <br />
kids playing <br />
All skin colors <br />
Protesters/marching/sign holding <br />
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My job then, was to try and synthesize all of that into one cohesive design, which is what we painted. Before getting our brushes wet, I talked with the kids about the power of "using our voices" through art (because that's what I know best.) I showed a powerpoint, and talked about how muralists like Diego Rivera were able to express some pretty powerful ideas through making public art. I talked about some murals I made in Madagascar, and how they helped teach folks in areas where literacy rates were low. That's the power of using our voices. So, the kids were already empowered about the idea of using their "voices" to show the rest of the school community how they felt. And that again, is the Peace Corps way. <br />
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On painting days, I lead about 5 kids out into the hallway at a time, and give them each a paint color and a place to put it. We work in layers - the first layers are purely just covering the wall. The subsequent layers leave more room for expressive mark-making and more careful technique practice. In the end, all of the kid have put a mark or 30 on the mural. And believe me, they remember EXACTLY where they are afterwards. It's so fun! The teachers even captured it on video this year, and made this gorgeous time-lapse! Love. Bucket = filled. <br />
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In my mission to post about a backlog of projects, today I'm sharing a very Northwest-y mural. This project came about when I was asked to paint something on the walls of an apartment building's lobby. This building is located in Northwest Portland, close to Forest Park - a lush backdrop of forest covered hills over the city's west side. The name of the apartments - Forestry Court - and it's proximity to actual forest, inspired a pretty obvious choice for the mural's imagery. The lobby is fairly dim, with little natural light, so I knew that I wanted to infuse a bit of "daylight" into the mural. A whole lot of Indian Yellow helped me create an illusion of that magic "golden hour" feel. It's that time of day when the sun is getting ready to start setting, and there are long shadows on the ground, and everything turns, well, golden. We knew we wanted to cover all of the available walls in the room, which was one large and prominent wall, plus two tall and narrow walls to the sides. Though there were hallways cutting through between the walls, I wanted them all to work together to create one cohesive piece. Then, the viewer's imagination could then fill the empty spaces between. </div>
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I always enjoy the challenge of making it look like light is shining through the leaves on a tree. That almost-neon green that is formed by a back-lit leaf is so juicy and bright to look at in the natural world. Hard to capture in a painting, but worth trying. </div>
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Once the main walls were done, I waited for a warmer day to paint some areas in the outside entryway. I figured just some greenery would help beautify the empty spaces in the tiling, and serve as a preview to what you'll see when you enter the building. </div>
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I remember painting this in such a "flow" state - almost a trance. Nature is something I'm pretty darn used to painting by now, so it doesn't require a whole lot of thought - at least not conscious thought. When painting this kind of subject matter, what it really requires of me, is to turn off my conscious thought process, and just let my hands do their thing. It's projects like this, when I will listen to podcasts and audiobooks, to keep my mind occupied while my hands do the work. More complicated projects require more thinking (architectural or geometric work is like this). Does this make sense? It's just one of those things I've come to learn and nurture about the way my brain works.</div>
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This project totally inspired me to paint something like this in my home. I want a forest wall! Or door, or garage door, or kitchen. My house only has one mural so far - another project on the list to share. More to come!</div>
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Hope you enjoy the pictures and video of this fun forest-y mural!</div>
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<br />Corie Hintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239120092793147515noreply@blogger.com0Portland, OR, USA45.5230622 -122.6764815000000245.167192199999995 -123.32192850000003 45.8789322 -122.03103450000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275798418177284869.post-10072495294161254182018-09-01T09:00:00.000-07:002018-09-01T16:48:51.377-07:00How and why am I a Graphic Designer - Story time!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Another quarter of the year has passed, blog-less. I'm really going to try and change that habit, and do more creative things that feel good. Writing about my life and current projects is one of those things. </div>
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I want to write about my Day Job today. My J.O.B. My 9-5. If you follow me here and not in real-life, you may just know me as a muralist/art teacher type. But I am also a Graphic Designer. This is the story of how I became one.</div>
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Looking back at my life, as soon as I discovered that you could create art in digital spaces as well as traditional analog ones, I was IN TO IT. When I was a kid, I would get on our little box-y black and white mac computer so that I could play Kid Pix, and drag around those digital brushes that would paint different patterns onto a blank canvas. It was so fascinating to me. I was a teenager in high school when I began (wildly... WILDLY) experimenting with Photoshop. I made a fake magazine about the pop-metal and alternative rock bands I was into at the time - complete with multi-page articles and music reviews (written by yours truly) and ads for fake products. All in Photoshop, with roughly 1 MILLION layers (cringe). As an angsty 16 year old, it was my digital masterpiece. In college, I took a few introductory graphic design and pre-press courses where I learned layout softwares like Quark Express and InDesign. I took a digital illustration class which opened my eyes to the complex world of Adobe Illustrator (and the pen tool I dreaded so much) and Corel Painter. It was incredible to me to be able to zoom in 200% and correct such tiny details in a piece of art. It was magic.</div>
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Despite all of that early interest, Graphic design was something I came to fairly recently in my life. A few years ago, after growing tired of the less-than-lucrative hustle of freelance and short teaching contracts, I came to Graphic Design in pursuit of a "safety net" during a move to the Big City. I viewed Design as a creative, yet reliable means to support my life and side business as a muralist. It was a practical and deliberate decision, satisfying my Taurus need for some desperately-needed stability. </div>
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Being a Taurus also means I am stubborn, strong-willed and independent. Those traits have been both strengths and weaknesses in my life. Looking back, I think they kept me from pursuing this career as a younger adult. See, my Dad was a Graphic Designer. In college, I didn't even see that path as an option. I wanted to explore a path that was fiercely, uniquely, MINE. I chose my college major quickly, and stuck to it: Illustration with an Emphasis in Animation. I liked the idea of working at a Pixar-type studio, and making character designs and backgrounds (everything BESIDES actually animating, which I soon discovered I did not have the patience or passion for.) After graduating college, I put those plans on hold and joined the Peace Corps.</div>
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Peace Corps consumed my life for a good 3+ years. I was only actually living in Madagascar as a Peace Corps Volunteer for a total of 27 months, but a forced evacuation paused my service for 9 months of chilling on my parent's couch. I then went back to complete year 2 of my service. After coming home finally, I found myself reeling mentally and emotionally with the struggle of re-entry to life in the U.S. But I needed cash. Immediately. I went back into food service (sigh). I then worked my way into a sort-of-kind-of-regular job contracting at different K-12 schools, teaching kids art and making murals with them as an Artist-in-Residence, with commissioned mural jobs on the side. I took stock of my career goals and did some deep soul-searching. I reached out to a former professor for advice, and learned I needed to narrow my focus. Trying to keep ALL of the doors open, was preventing me from walking through any of them. I made a pro/con list, and a priority matrix (a tool I learned in Peace Corps. Need to decide something? See p. 43 of <a href="https://files.peacecorps.gov/multimedia/pdf/library/GED5_pacatools.pdf" target="_blank">this document</a>.) I entered so many interests and options into the matrix: Illustrator, Muralist, Tattoo artist, etc. Graphic Designer? Still not one of them. I decided that being a Muralist was what I really wanted to focus on. That hustle was HARD for me, and I soon realized I could not support myself that way full time, in that size town. So, a move! And then to facilitate that move, a job! What kind of creative job could be so "normal" that I would have it by the time I arrived in the city? Graphic Design finally appeared in a real way. </div>
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I spent a few months refreshing and re-learning design skills and software I hadn't used since college. I watched hours of online tutorials and made myself a little web portfolio. That finally landed me an entry-level design job at a non-profit in Portland. From there I moved into the private sector, and now I've landed in the public sector. Working as an in-house designer has lead me to learn in-depth about industries I never would have otherwise: religious private school, fitness facilities, "green" and "eco" conference and event planning, aviation data sales, and now, criminal justice and community supervision and treatment. I have learned to code a bit, and so many new tools and programs. Graphic Design has lead me places I never would have imagined for myself. And I still have my other love on the side - murals. It's so satisfying to be able to pick up a brush, after days of clicking a mouse. It's the same creative drive - the same language, but a different dialect. </div>
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Now that I'm in my 30's and doing this work, I realize that Design was always something I loved. Like that Taylor Swift song about her unrequited love story. Graphic Design was always there waiting for me, she just needed me to grow up and into myself a little more. Thanks Dad, for the genes. </div>
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<br />Corie Hintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239120092793147515noreply@blogger.com1Portland, OR, USA45.5122308 -122.6587185000000245.1563568 -123.30416550000002 45.8681048 -122.01327150000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275798418177284869.post-91395897582188643522018-03-26T19:12:00.000-07:002018-03-26T19:38:51.100-07:00Wedding Hiatus... and I'm back!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
Wow, hello again!</div>
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It's been a loooong time, readers, I know. I've taken the last year-ish to take a step back from hustling and the mural life, so that I could focus my extra creative energies on something else - getting hitched! </div>
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The past September, I married the love of my life. It was truly the most love-filled love fest of a day that I can remember. To get us to that day, it took a whole lot of Type A planning vibes (something that does not come naturally to me - I have had to learn and work hard at being that way when it's required), creative energy and DIY elbow grease. My home studio was full of orange and gold glittered (our wedding colors) bits and pieces. My google drive was full of spreadsheets, word docs, and InDesign files. I designed all the printed pieces, as well as painted the signage. Husband built things, made things stand upright, and kept me sane. I consciously stepped back from other creative ventures to get it all done. Then honeymoon + holidays + settling into married life took over for the months following the wedding. </div>
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I am now officially, Corie Michaels! I kept the ol' "Hinton" as a middle name, so that Corie Hinton can remain my artist name. At this point, there's probably hundreds of murals out there (I really actually have no idea how many...) that have been signed "Corie Hinton", so why be confusing? Anyway, married bliss and all that - it's really truly awesome. But now I'm ready to get back in the game and start producing more art for my own enjoyment, and also for ya know, cash haha. Before I blog about the handful of projects in between and since Wedding Madness, I thought I'd share some of what I made for the wedding. Enjoy! And look for more recap posts coming very soon. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Designed and framed our Ketubah (left) - Jewish marriage contract.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spray painted 150+ bottles and vases gold and half-gold for centerpieces</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Husband built it, I added pretty curtains, florist added flowers. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Designed our program - front side explained the ceremony, back side was sort of an infographic "about us" to read while waiting for the ceremony to start. Fans were NECESSARY as it was 100+ degrees that day and outdoor ceremony!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Welcome sign - again, hand painted flowery. Secret: I went to a recycling center and bought a bunch of old wood cabinet doors in all shapes and sizes to paint all my signage on! Also, gold leaf border but it's hard to tell in this pic.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our "seating chart" was actually bagged donuts with labels that told guest where to sit. Yummm!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Card box - more orange and gold</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hand painted giant piece of plywood that I mural-ed for a photo booth backdrop</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Invitation package, designed by me. Gold, gold glitter, and more orange.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I got to use gold foil for the first time ever in my graphic design career! What better time than for my own wedding?! </td></tr>
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Corie Hintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239120092793147515noreply@blogger.com0Portland, OR, USA45.5230622 -122.6764815000000245.167192199999995 -123.32192850000003 45.8789322 -122.03103450000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275798418177284869.post-90035475150913159692017-07-05T13:34:00.001-07:002017-07-05T13:35:15.101-07:00"I am a Muralist" - A Social Justice Mural with Smart Kiddos<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; letter-spacing: -0.24px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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If you've followed this blog for a long time, you'll know that I originally started it as a way to document and explain my art lessons with kids, so that other teachers and teaching artists could benefit from them. I have since moved on and changed careers, and my blog has changed to reflect that. I used to be a Teaching Artist. I was on a roster with the local art council, and would get hired to visit schools to work with their kids in creating murals. Sometimes the contracts would last over a month, and sometimes just for a day. In my job now, I work a 9-5 as a graphic designer for a company. It's a more steady income flow, and it was just a nice career shift for me. While I definitely love still doing my own mural work on the side, there are days when I really miss making art with the kids. </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.24px;">A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to work with a classroom on a mural again. The school guidance counselor reached out to me through my website, and asked if I would be willing to donate my time to help them create a mural. My work just happens to give me 2 days per year to do service work, so that worked out perfectly for this project. This is how the school counselor described their situation:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;"><i>"100% of our students receive free lunch. Our students are mostly kids of color and many are first or second generation Americans. Many of our kiddos have challenging home lives and have parents who are incarcerated, addicted or absentee. My role as the School Counselor is to teach skills and give support to these young people regarding the hurt, frustration, sadness and anger they have. We are a school of many white walls. I believe children will invest in what they see their environment to be and I don't believe white sterile walls are good for anyone, let alone children."</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;">How could I possibly say no to that? We met up with the teacher who would be leading the project with me, and game-planned. The students would create a mural based on a poem that they were used to reading every morning before they started their school work. Here is that poem, written by Luis Valdez:</span></div>
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The kids were assigned to draw and write about what the poem meant to them. The teacher then sent me all of their answers and drawings. I took stock of the images that came up repeatedly in the kids' work: Landscapes. Children holding hands. Children of different colors. Hearts. Then, I took those images and turned them into one cohesive mural design, which I traced onto the wall myself before working with the kids. </div>
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On painting day #1, I gave a short presentation about the mural work I do. We talked about what makes a mural different from other art (it's art for everyone to enjoy, it's art for a community). We also talked about what it means to do a project together and work collaboratively (no one person gets to do the "coolest part" all by themselves. It takes ALL our brushstrokes to make up this picture, together). The biggest thing I had to tell them though, was why art is important. We talked about my murals done in the Peace Corps, in areas where the literacy rates are very low - murals become communication and teaching tools, more than the written word. Murals can explain to the public, the feelings of a community. This mural they were creating as a classroom, was going to explain their feelings and values to the school community. Murals give people voices. </div>
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Then, we got to work. I approach murals with kids with a "one kid, one color, one job" approach. I mix a ton of colors in solo cups (house party supplies coming in handy! haha) and give one to each kid as they cycle through turns painting. Each kid gets a job. I ask them to fill in something, outline something, add some trees here, etc. They use their color, in their area, to finish their job. After 15-20 minutes, we rotate kids. Rinse and repeat until the mural feels finished. We had such a blast!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">In the middle of the second day, the guidance counselor came up to tell me this: "one of the Latina girls you have been painting with just told me that she has felt sad with all the people saying they are not happy with immigrants being here. But she said that after painting this and seeing people with all the different skin colors in the mural, she feels like people really do love her." (I'm not crying, <i>you're</i> crying!) </span><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">The lesson here is this: there are many ways to resist injustice. I was not in the streets that day, I was wrangling children with paintbrushes. But it's clearly made a small difference, if just to a few shorter, lovely humans. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">Here are a few of the kids' responses to their experiences. Again, heart melts. My favorite: </span><span style="font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.24px;">"I am a muralist." Yeah kid, you sure are. </span></div>
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I recently had the pleasure of trying something I've never tried before, artistically. And I have to say, not only did it turn out pretty ok, I'm sorta obsessed with the process. I got to paint with light. </div>
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I was commissioned by a family friend to paint a not-super-realistic portrayal of Mt. Rainier and the Seattle skyline, surrounded by a whole lot of nature, including a lake. Now, I'm not exactly sure if this is a real view that exists in life somewhere, but it was made clear to me that it wasn't the important part of the project. We cut and pasted different scenes and photos together to create this city/mountain mash-up. </div>
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The painting was commissioned to be the focal point of my client's new home-bar area. So cool! (like the over-achiever version of the bar cart trend) I made a canvas to fit the exact dimensions of his wall space. The client's idea was to have a painting with fairly ambiguous time-of-day lighting, so that he could also commission another buddy to build him an elaborate lighting set up to go along with the painting. From my understanding, the lighting set-up will have different colors/settings/timers so that it can shine light on the painting to make it look like it's going from daylight to sunset, to night time. By the time it's dark, the only light shining on it will be blacklight. So I was asked to make the painting look normal in the daylight, and totally light up under blacklight! </div>
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Coolest commission ever, no? Also a challenge, since I haven't worked with glow-in-the-dark/blacklight paint since I was probably 13. The process was this: I painted the painting as I normally would paint, but also added a ton of neon pigment into my colors as I mixed them. Neon acrylic is most definitely something I already had laying around, (because duh), so that part was nothing new to me. I knew that the neon would light up under the blacklight, so I was strategic about it's placement. After the whole thing was painted and dry, I turned out all the lights in my studio, except a blacklight. Then I painted over everything a bit, with the blacklight paint (I used Golden brand's glow-paint, recommended highly to me by the Art Store Guy). It was such a weird experience to paint in complete darkness. The paint totally lit up on my paper plate palette, and as I brushed it onto the dark canvas. I felt I was painting with pure light. When I turned on the lights, the glow-paint was nearly invisible. SO. COOL. </div>
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This was beyond fun, and my client was beyond cool. I must do more of this magic. Anyone need a painting or mural with a HIDDEN MESSAGE on it?!?!? A love note that only shows up under blacklight? A political statement? A hidden design? Let's play, guys!!!</div>
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<br />Corie Hintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239120092793147515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275798418177284869.post-42987226913905665242017-06-13T09:51:00.002-07:002017-06-13T09:55:12.301-07:00A Rooster and a Restoration<div style="text-align: left;">
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Project #1, yet-to-be-blogged: A rooster painting for my mom's birthday! My family members often request paintings from me for holidays and birthdays. This time, it was my mom asking for a painting of a rooster. As a family, we all recently went on an incredible trip to Hawaii together. My partner, my sister and her partner, and I, all went to the big island, then all returned to work (ahhhh #worklife). My parents and my aunt and uncle, kept vacay-ing on Kauai. Kauai has these crazy-colorful roosters that my mom absolutely loved. Hence, the painting request. I really love to paint animals of all kinds, and this was a really fun one. It was a challenge to try and capture the rainbow iridescence that sometimes happens on some bird's black feathers. I put him on a beach, to tie in the hawaiian vibe. So fun! The lighting is a tiny bit different in each of these, so attaching both pics. So fun!</div>
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Project #1, yet-to-be-blogged: A mural restoration! This one came through a couple months ago, and was a different one. There were 3 murals painted in an older apartment complex, in the 80's. They had definitely seen better days - lots of cracking and peeling and water damage from time taking it's toll. They asked me to come in and fix them all. First, I just gave them all a good scrub down. Some of the discoloration appeared only to be dirt, which was a nice surprise. Then, I went to work peeling everything off that was already about to peel. That left some pretty signifigant empty patches, which I then spackled and sanded down. Then I added a coat of gesso, to seal the spackle work and protect against future water damage. Then finally, I did a lot of paint mixing and color matching, and restored the actual artwork. This was a new sort of challenge for me, but it was really nice to know that now it can truly be a part of repetoire, since I think it turned out pretty well. The best part, was when an older gentleman came up and introduced himself to me. He told me that his son was the one that had painted the murals all those years ago. Then he had decided to live there, and has been a resident ever since. I loved that, and felt really good to be able to clean them up for him to see every day!! Warm and fuzzy feels. </div>
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Corie Hintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239120092793147515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275798418177284869.post-85648395743979997782017-03-26T21:44:00.000-07:002017-03-26T21:44:06.359-07:00A Portland Map for my Title Company<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Hope everyone's had a great weekend. Mine was totally packed full - working hard and playing hard. Yesterday, I spent all day mural-ing. Then, drinks with friends and a sublime tribute concert! The best. </div>
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This mural concept began back in October, when I sat over an inch-thick stack of papers, preparing to sign on the dotted line (all of them) to finalize the purchase of my home. I did this through Ticor Title, here in Portland. They were super helpful and awesome, explaining everything patiently. Since the person helping me was looking through my entire financial life, she commented on the fact that I'm a muralist as one of my jobs. She mentioned that Ticor might be interested in a mural, once they moved spaces. Fast forward to a few weeks ago, when Ticor reached out to me, hoping I'd still be up for a mural in their new office. STOKED, of course. We went with a big map of Portland neighborhoods for their lobby space. They were excited about a black and white look, with just one color - their branding color of blue, for the rivers running through our city. Their idea is to have homebuyers come in and selfie next to their new neighborhoods, as a marketing strategy. I love that! The even insisted I make note of the fact that I bought my first home with them, directly on the mural, near my signature. It's just such a cool company to want to do something like this. I was really happy to be involved.</div>
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The actual act of painting this felt very physical to me. I was totally sweating through this one. I think being on a ladder, and having to keep an extremely steady hand for so long, is what did it. There's not a lot of room for error in an all-typographical mural like this. But I sure liked the meditative quality of making all these damn letters and lines. Super fun, if technically tedious. And also, very different from what I'm usually asked to paint. The graphic designer part of me is at the same time, satisfied and overwhelmed. But overall, I like. More of this, please!</div>
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This mural went in the playroom of a sweet new client family's home. I've come to know them a little bit, and enjoy their energy and their aesthetic. For this mural, they asked for something that would please all of them - the husband, the wife, and the kids. The husband is a hunter, and asked to include an elk with exactly 6 points on his antlers, as well as other elk hunting imagery, like the rubbed off spot on the tree bark (I guess it's a "tell" that elk are near), and the muddy hole/pond that they drink from (or roll in? I forget.) The wife wanted a purple-y moonlit sky. The kids, well, they got a cool thing to look at in their awesome playroom. The <a href="http://thetalkingwallsmurals.blogspot.com/2017_01_01_archive.html" target="_blank">owl mural</a> I made a few weeks ago, is on the wall across from this one. We're still going to add at least one of two more little vignettes in this room. Should be a super cool space when it's done. Ahhhhh I just love pacific-northwest-ys and our need for bringing nature into the home, in all the various forms. Maybe that's just a universal thing though, nature. Either way, it makes this tree-hugging muralist happy. </div>
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I just finished up a mural for my friends who run <a href="http://www.dreamingtreerentals.com/" target="_blank">Dreaming Tree Rentals</a> out of NW Portland. This mural is small (ish) but hopefully, impactful, as it's the first thing you see when you enter the airbnb rental apartments. This wall is the central point as you walk up the flight of stairs, leading to a landing that separates off into three different apartments: "The Hideaway", "The Oasis" and "The Nest". We debated for awhile about whether the design should be more about the urban parts of the city, or more about the natural parts. In the end, we decided that maybe if you're visiting Portland and staying in the rentals, what you might want after a long day exploring, is a bit of peace and quiet. The spaces really do feel like a secluded escape from the city, and the mural speaks to that, now.<br />
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I like to think I got a little loose with this one - letting my swirly brushstrokes and shapes come out to play a bit more than usual. This is definitely how I prefer to paint, rather than rendering things more realistically. Because what is art, if not augmenting reality? And swirlies are how I choose to augment.<br />
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This was sure a fun one... I just wish you could see it! I've decided that I've been in business long enough to invest a bit more into it, and get myself a nicer camera to document my work with. Every year around tax time, I always ponder the same thing - I run a funny sort of business in that there is little to no overhead. I go to other people to work, with no actual space rental myself. Yes, I buy paint in large quantities a few times a year, and splurge on brushes sometimes (because there's just no escaping an art store without throwing down for a few new brushes that I'm sure I NEED. NEED!) ...And I pay to host my website. But other than that, my business is sort of run on my brain and my hands. So I'm going to turn some of 2016's mural income into a camera, and I couldn't be more stoked. Look forward to blog and website updates with crisper, more true-to-life color photos cuz this girl's iphone is just not cutting it anymore. But for today, enjoy the following:<br />
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<br />Corie Hintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239120092793147515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275798418177284869.post-23509246652175316982017-01-16T21:24:00.001-08:002017-01-16T21:25:49.122-08:00Owls and Aspens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hi Everyone! I'm posting about a project on the day I painted it...whaaat? So prompt.<br />
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I loved this one. Not only for obvious reasons (got to paint fluffy baby owlets), but for reasons not shown in these pictures. I loved painting this wall because the owner of it was an extraordinarily sweet person with a cute, cute family. When I started painting murals for money about 14 (WHAT?!?) years ago, I only really painted for family friends, or friends of friends. But now that my business has grown, my clients are mostly strangers. And I love when I meet nice strangers and get to connect with their families. Painting inside someone's home means asking a lot of questions about their lives. It means being in their space for hours on end and playing with their children. It sometimes means eating meals in their homes or accepting a bottomless cup of tea. This job allows me to meet people in my city that I would otherwise maybe never get to know. In all these years, I can only remember a couple of instances where my gut was telling me to avoid a Stranger Danger situation, and I did not go through with a mural. The other 99% of my clients have been pretty darn lovely. Anyways, with this one, I just felt very welcomed into this family's home. They even offered to let me and my fiance stay the night when they heard our furnace was broken (fixed now!). More than that, these murals seem to mean a lot to them. I am slowly transforming a dark and dingy basement into a lighter, brighter space for their children to play. They are picking trees, colors, and animals that are significant to their family. The funniest thing was, after all that thought and planning, none of us realized until I was finished that I had painted an owl mom of twins - just like my client and her children. How did we miss that one? </div>
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This is one of 3-4 smaller vignette-type of projects we have planned in their home. Loving the challenge of creating pieces that fade off into their wall, instead of completely covering it. Super fun!</div>
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<br />Corie Hintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239120092793147515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275798418177284869.post-3791875608634159942017-01-01T15:13:00.001-08:002017-01-01T15:19:32.069-08:00Summer Throw-back ProjectsHi Everyone!<br />
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Happy new year!! Happy to be in 2017. 2016 was intense and sad in so many ways for the world. The orlando shooting rocked me pretty hard, as did Prince and Bowie's deaths, as did the election results, and I could go on, but I won't. It's been quite a mess of a year in a lot of ways, and the resulting stress and sadness for the world can get overwhelming. But when I narrow down to my own little life, I must say, 2016 has been overwhelmingly wonderful. The big things are pretty obvious - house + fiance + new day (non mural) job, which I start tomorrow....eeee! Those are some big ol' wonderful changes, and I am extremely grateful for all of them. But again, to jump on the bandwagon, yay 2017. Wishing all of you the best of the best for this coming year.<br />
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As I gear up for some wintertime painting, I'm realizing that I still haven't posted about all the Summer/fall painting, so thought I would do a bit of catching up today. Here are a couple I missed:<br />
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This first commission was about honoring a loved one who passed away. I won't get into details, but all the elements you see here were chosen specifically to combine into a large piece in memory of someone. It's commissions like this, that are deeply customized and therefore deeply personal and meaningful, that in turn give me the most satisfaction to paint for people. These kinds of commissions are about more than beauty. They are about visually representing a feeling for someone. I hope it brings my client a little bit of peace.<br />
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On the technical side of this one, I very much enjoyed the challenge of creating a design on three separate, long panels. Each panel was a different idea, and needed to stand on it's own, but at the same time, go with the others. Super fun and challenging. <br />
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The second project I failed to post, is a bit more lighthearted. This was a commission for a friend's new baby. Cue the awwwwwwwww for this first pic: Cutest tiny satisfied mini-client!<br />
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I'm so happy to have been able to help these sweet new parents settle into their new house. I loved this little Pooh and Piglet scene idea, and the quote that they chose from "The Tao of Pooh." So perfect for a little boo's room. And so much fun to paint! I am always all about painting back-lit leaves. Juicy. YES.<br />
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<br />Corie Hintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239120092793147515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275798418177284869.post-54110818629963774252016-12-11T12:57:00.004-08:002016-12-11T13:00:05.275-08:00My Home is Portland Oregon<div style="text-align: left;">
You guys. It has been an embarassingly long time since I've posted a blog. It's preeeetty bad.</div>
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P.s. this is pic is from my instagram which you can follow here: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/talkingwallsmurals/" target="_blank">@talkingwallsmurals </a> #notsosubtleplug</div>
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We look like zombies because we were dancing at the annual Thrill the World event - an event where people all over the world dance simultaneously to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" and raise money for charity. Don't worry about it. My fiance knows me well and knows that I could not have been more into having fake blood dripping down my face while he asked me to marry him. Quirky, and so, so perfect for us. I am so happy!! </div>
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So yeah, house projects and wedding planning madness occupies time. But now, I'm going to share a mural with you because that is primarily what this blog is about. I did another Portland-themed mural! This one is in the lobby of an apartment complex in NW Portland. It was super fun! Subject matter that I am super familiar with by now, but it's always fun to come up with fresh ways of doing it. And I actually really really love painting Mt. Hood. It takes my breath away even still, to come around a corner on a clear day and see Hood looking down over our beautiful city.</div>
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Also, on a nerdy note, the surface I painted this mural on was unlike any wall I've ever worked on. It was like there was a cloth-like surface treatment over the wall board. Pretty old building, so I'm not sure what it actually was, but it felt like painting on a canvas board. I was so into it. I want that on every wall! Anyway, here are the pics: (Not my best work as a mural-photographer though... there were windows behind me so the light is shining very strangely over the mural. I'll go back at some point to take better ones. But you get the idea.)</div>
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Get ready for loooong, end-of-season reflection time!<br />
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Mural work seems to come in waves. The winter time, especially right after the holidays, can be a slow time for business. With the return of the sunshine in Spring, people start to think about home/business improvement again, and my business picks up. Outdoor murals are also much more feasible during this time, given Portland’s wet weather. It’s been a busy warm season for me, for sure. But I definitely played as hard as I worked. I got outside a lot, and made some awesome Summer memories with friends, family and my love. <br />
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We’re right in the middle of that transition between Summer and Fall. This time of year, I always start to mourn Summer a little bit. I am absolutely a sun child and like the heat and all that it brings. The Fall is always my consolation prize for Summer ending though. Fall brings us Halloweeeen, which is magical and I adore. For me, Fall is also a time to turn inwards a bit more. Literally, I stay inside more, and also, I find that the weather makes me tune into my inner self more - it’s time to get to work. I have a few projects coming up that I’m super excited about - indoor wall, small commission painting, and one or two straggler outdoor walls that I hope can get finalized before the rain comes full force. They’re all different and will make for a fun Fall lineup of jobs. I’m realizing one thing though: I have neglected to make art for myself just for my own enjoyment, for a long time. I’ve been hustling hard, and playing in the sunshine the rest of the time. This Fall, I’m going to commit to doing some work simply to feed my own creative drive. I’m looking forward to spending some of the rainier days to come, settling in to paint. For me. <br />
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Friends, I want to tell you something SO BAD, but it feels jinx-y to announce fully just yet. So I'll just be vague (sorrynotsorry). I have been doing this work for a long time, sometimes making literally no money from projects (super rarely now tho, thankfully), and sometimes making the kind of bank I could never have imagined years ago. I have been doing this work - painting walls for money - for 13 years now. Doing exactly what I love has allowed me now, to buy myself a house. This is a ridiculous sentence for me to read back. While I’m not completely out of the woods in achieving that goal, I am staring the end of the long process in the face, and hoping for the best. The home-buying journey is an incredibly fast-paced one, especially in Portland’s market. With some time to breathe now, I’m feeling some space to reflect.<br />
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Painting is the work that makes me feel the most like myself. It is my favorite thing to do alone. It is the activity I missed most, when I was in the Peace Corps in Madagascar and away from pretty much every aspect of what makes up my life in America. It is also part of my job. It’s sometimes super weird that those 2 things combine - passion and money - but for me, most of the time, that combination is wonderful and fulfilling. Is it awkward sometimes to ask for money for what I enjoy doing? Yes. But then I remind myself that I spent a long time in school (and out), training for this. And a lot of people love their jobs, and also get paid for them. It’s such a blessing. I just want to thank all of you reading, who has ever been my client. I wish I would have kept track of every single person who has ever commissioned me for something. But I do know there are some of you out there who have, who are reading. If that is you, THANK YOU. You, plus all the others, are who have allowed me to even consider this gigantic goal. Thank you thank you thank you, and I love you all. <br />
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…New mural sketch below, cuz you don’t come for the babbles, right? ;)<br />
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Been so long! I painted a mural a couple weeks ago and neglected to post it here... it just ended up as an album on my Talking Walls <a href="https://www.facebook.com/talkingwallsmurals/" target="_blank">facebook</a>. That one was a fun little flowery garden shed. Buuuut then I painted this next one, and decided it was time to get back on the blog train again, so here we are. </div>
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This one is a bit outside my norm. So.... GRAPHIC! This was definitely mind-meld of my two jobs: graphic designer and muralist. Loved it.</div>
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I love helping my clients along, when it comes to dreaming up a vision for their space. Of course I have my own opinions and aesthetic, but it's like I always say: they are not. my. walls. You, dear clients, must live with them. I am here to help you decide, and eventually execute, what you would like them to look like. </div>
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This particular client manages an apartment complex, with a lobby that needed some life. She liked the whole mid-century vibe. She needed some help to take her the rest of the way there. I definitely helped the most just in cheering her on, as she made decisions. Yes, you are right, bright orange WOULD be the perfect color for your entire apartment complex lobby! (Orange is my favorite color, so duh.) And yes, mid-century modern DOES call for design that is both very simple and extremely playful and fun. And those atomic starburst things are the funnest.</div>
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<br />Corie Hintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239120092793147515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275798418177284869.post-239321700051696422016-07-02T17:45:00.006-07:002016-07-02T17:45:42.393-07:00Six Strong Women, Six Strong Panels<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">
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Happy weekend! I'm just getting around to blogging about something really cool that happened for me <i>last</i> weekend. Our Six Strong collaborative mural was installed on the side of Everyday Wine on Alberta street here in Portland! This is a project that was organized through Alberta Art Works, an organization trying to get more public art into the Alberta neighborhood. Six local female artists were chosen to work on this project, and I was honored to be one of them. Each of us was given a 4'x8' panel to paint on. Anything we wanted (within reason - no nudity!) that related to the (very broad) theme of female empowerment. </div>
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<a href="https://www.gofundme.com/sixstrong" style="color: #b5398a; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">You can learn more about the project and artists on the Go Fund Me page here.</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.gofundme.com/sixstrong" style="color: #b5398a; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><br /></a>Can you guess which one I made from the first picture below? Hint: I like pink. </div>
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1. You can feel strong, <span style="line-height: 18.2px;">capable, liberated, empowered, and independent, but also present and identify yourself as super "femme" at the same time. </span><span style="line-height: 18.2px;">Break the molds, break through stereotypes, break the glass ceiling. But feel that it's also ok to paint your nails and wear pink and glitter along the way, if it makes you feel good to do those things. It should be considered a legit choice to be a super badass and also glittery if you want to be glittery. Hence, the colors in my panel are all pinks, and all the skin tones of the women are painted with pink glitter. I'm hoping the sparkle shows up more when the late afternoon sun shines directly on the mural.</span></div>
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<br />2. We are strong through each other and through our communities. I liked the imagery that came up when I thought about women very literally, lifting each other up to positions of greater power and strength. We can do it (together!)</div>
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SO SO excited to have finished and installed not one but TWO pieces of actual public art up in this city in the last month!! YAY PUBLIC MURAL STUFF!! Not that I don't like the residential indoor ones, but it has definitely been a dream of mine to make more public work. So YAY dreams coming true and stuff. </div>
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Happy fourth everyone! </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I just finished this big retaining wall mural for an
apartment complex in Northwest Portland. I’ve worked with this client before,
but was still sort of awed when they said: “what’s YOUR vision for this wall?”
and then accepted the first sketch I made. It’s pretty amazing and extremely
rare to have a client give me full creative freedom to make a sketch. It’s even
more amazing and rare to have that sketch accepted, just as I created it. Usually,
my clients come to me with an idea – anywhere from very specific imagery,
colors, etc., to having a vague theme to work with. But this time, I just got
to go for it. To be fair though, I did keep my audience in mind, and wasn’t
about to go totally out of control weird with it either. Afterall, this wall is
in a residential neighborhood, and I wanted to make sure it would appeal to at
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The theme is sort of a love letter to Portland. I love how
we can live an urban lifestyle in the city, and in 20 minutes, be in the
country or in the middle of a forest. We can be on the coast OR the mountains
in a little over an hour. It’s an exceptionally awesome place to live, in that
way. I organized this feeling into a loooong, short wall. On the right, we’ve
got a night scene of the Portland skyline, with street lamps, owls, stars, and
a bridge (duh.) As we move left, we see the city transition into natural
landscape, and more daytime light and colors. I love this city, and I hope
that comes across and is relatable to the people who walk by this wall, or see
it every day when they are almost home. Beautiful, magical, weird, Portland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I made this last weekend! This was done to celebrate a new marriage for an older couple. The tree will have pictures from of their respective families hung over it, in honor of combining their lives. I just love that. I love how sometimes people use my murals as a symbolic gesture. Or as therapy... you decide! I definitely hear a lot of stories in this job. Which is not, I know, maybe what you expect. People tell their hairdressers their life stories, that's a given. But also apparently, their muralists. And I love it a lot. </div>
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This was a fun one! Can't wait to see how it looks when the pictures are hung on top! </div>
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Sure feels weird to blog about something so fluffy, in light of the recent Orlando shooting tragedy. There's nothing new to say that would fully express my feelings about it. I keep thinking about how important queer spaces are for the exact purpose of having SAFE spaces where people can be themselves. That sense of safety was shattered, on Pride month, no less. It's just plain heartbreaking. I want to just promote <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/pulsevictimsfund" target="_blank">this page</a> that is collecting donations for the victim's families, before moving on. Hopefully this mural will bring a little lightness and color to your day, if your heart is hurting too. </div>
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I made this mural the weekend before last, in my home town of Eugene. My parents still live there, so it was an added bonus to get to hang out with them while working on this. And sure nice to have a dad to bring me random supplies I forgot, and a mom to bring me a milkshake. Perks of being home for work, I tell you!</div>
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This mural is in a new yarn shop called "Cozy" that is opening in Eugene, OR. in mid-July, at 285 E. 5th St. The idea is to have all of the furnishings in the shop be in white, while the only pops of color will be the actual yarn on the shelves, and my mural in classroom area in the back of the shop. It's about 30ft. long, so not exactly subtle! We played with the idea at first, of just doing a giant granny square afghan, blown up large-scale across the whole wall. Then, I thought to have just crochet circles on a while background to keep it fresh, modern, and more in tune with the store's look. </div>
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I was excited about the concept sketches, but I can actually say I was a bit nervous about the actual execution of this one. I didn't know how I was going to tackle it until I was staring down the giant blank wall - no plan. The first circle (far right) was a learning circle, and took awhile. After completing that one, I found a rhythm, and just let it flow out of me. And now I know how to tackle painting crochet work, just in case I ever get asked to do <em>that </em>again, ha! It was fun to have a challenge, and then solve the creative puzzle. Creative puzzles are my favorite. </div>
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Corie Hintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239120092793147515noreply@blogger.com0Eugene, OR, USA44.0520691 -123.0867536000000143.8695016 -123.4094771 44.234636599999995 -122.76403010000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275798418177284869.post-60242922951314587622016-05-19T17:07:00.000-07:002016-05-19T17:07:48.139-07:00PAINT ALL THE THINGS!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been a busy busy mural-painting beee! So much is happening between May and June that I'm feeling like I can barely keep up (while also incredibly grateful for the work...duh.) In Mural-landia, I've started to find that the wintertime, especially after the holidays, business is a little slow. Then Spring comes, and everyone starts to feel re-energized and excited about all things home-improvement. People start to add the color back into their lives! I've got a few business-place murals and a residential in the cue, and I'm super excited to paint all of them. Like, they're really really fun. But I'll tell you about those next time.</div>
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This post is gonna be way pic-heavy below, so get ready. Everything pictured here, and a few things that aren't, were finished during a recent 9 day trip to San Diego. I was there to paint murals inside a new memory care facility for patients with dementia and Alzheimer's. It's a super rewarding project to be a part of, and when I stop to reflect back on it, the warm and fuzzies start up. My grandma had dementia, and it was super hard to watch her decline. Up until the last couple years of her life, Grandma was an incredibly prolific and talented abstract artist. We were 2 peas in a pod - I thank her for the art-y brain I inherited. I also inherited her nice Golden acrylic paints, and a ton of her brushes. She wrote her name on them with sharpie, and I smile everytime I turn a brush in my hand and find her name there. When I reflect back on all the work I've done at not just that particular memory care facility, but the 2 others I've worked in, along with 2 retirement centers, I feel so happy and proud about being able to provide some joy and maybe ease some of the struggles of the residents who live in them. I know my Grandma would be so happy that I'm using this skill that she passed down to me, to help people who had what she had. Some strange full-circle-ness in the universe, that is. </div>
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BUT. Holy crap was it exhausting to paint this intensely under the kind of pressure and deadlines I was under for this last facility. Not to mention, trying to schedule and navigate around all the different kinds of workers that come through a construction site! I think I didn't blog about this whole thing until now, just because the whole post would have been like, "I'M. TIRED." Because I sure was. I guess, I've found that my "sweet spot", of getting my most quality mural work done, and staying in a creative zone, lasts about 5 hours. Then I need to eat (before the hangry-s kick in), and just rest my eyes. It really helps so much to do murals in big chunks rather than all in one day, working straight through. I think your brain needs time to catch up to what your hands are doing or something. It just feels like after I sleep between painting sessions, I solve the creative problems in the project overnight in my dreams. It really does work that way. BUT, deadlines are deadlines, and I didn't have that luxury this time. Still happy with what I made though, so maybe it's ok to paint exhausted and delirious. ;) Here's the stuff:</div>
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<br />Corie Hintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239120092793147515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275798418177284869.post-76841853544349225662016-04-19T20:13:00.004-07:002016-04-19T20:13:56.809-07:00Memory Care Murals in San Diego<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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This is gonna be mostly a pictures post. This is a weeks' worth of work from my trip down to San Diego. I was there to paint murals at a new memory care facility being built there. Each of the 4 wings of the memory care building is considered a "neighborhood", and has a large mural corresponding to the name. La Jolla, Balboa Park, Coronado, and Torrey Pines, are the neighborhood names, and landmark places in the San Diego area. The idea is to help residents navigate the building, and also feel a sense of home. I love being a part of making this building a better environment for memory patients! I'll be heading back in a couple weeks to finish up, so stay tuned!</div>
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<br />Corie Hintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239120092793147515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275798418177284869.post-85306613791516989552016-04-09T09:26:00.002-07:002016-04-09T09:26:43.281-07:00MAGIC mural to come!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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I'm sitting here in the airport during a layover on my way home to Portland. I just finished up a week-long mural painting trip in San Diego! It was a very intense and productive trip. I finished three bigger murals, painted clouds onto a blue ceiling sky, plus a few smaller vignettes. Muraling that intensely is physically exhausting (murals are big and command lots of movement in themselves... add climbing up and down scaffolding a million times to that and you get one tired Corie!) But a very good trip overall. Though there were moments of terror (I hate heights!) There were also many moments - hours even - where the exterior world melted away, my own thoughts melted away, and all I was left with was that blissful feeling of "flow." Painting is so good. #addictedtoflow</div>
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I opened up my laptop just now with the intention of blogging about the trip and posting a ton of pictures, but I found this post in my drafts, waiting to be published. So, I'll post about my San Diego trip next time. But for now, a look forward at what's to come! </div>
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I made the following mock-ups for a client in photoshop, and I get to paint it in a couple weeks!! This one is a bit more loose, playful, and generally magical than I'm used to painting for commission work. I'm super excited to be allowed the freedom to make this on a wall that doesn't belong to me. I think that painting something like this has a bit more to say than some of my other work. It feels like it has more of an opinion, if that makes sense. Instead of just saying, "this is Portland."... It says, "my city is SO beautiful - especially at night." Also, COLOR! Can't wait. </div>
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<br />Corie Hintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239120092793147515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275798418177284869.post-2796118694304252312016-03-16T19:05:00.000-07:002016-03-16T19:05:07.850-07:00A Not-Mural for Not-myself<div style="text-align: left;">
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There are some commissions and projects that exemplify the reason I am fulfilled by being a commercial artist – an artist that makes work according to other people’s visions instead of their own, in exchange for said other person's money. <br />
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To back track, obviously, I do very much enjoy making my own work that is <em>not</em> for pay. Making my own work satisfies a deep wanting to see in real life, what I see in my head. Or, it satisfies the need to explain something, or tell a story about my life - to be understood through the pictures I make. Last year, I took 3 months off from taking on freelance work of any kind, in order to finish a series of paintings commissioned by none other than my very own heart. I painted a 10+ piece series about my experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Madagascar. Making and showing those paintings allowed me to #1 express and release feelings I was holding onto, and #2, to explain the stories to other people. It was wonderful and I wish I could find the time and motivation to do more art for myself in between my day job and freelancing. But I also take a lot of pleasure in creating works for other people, and the painting below is why. <br />
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Because sometimes someone you know comes to you wanting to turn something sorta sad and dark into something empowering and uplifting and the way they want to do that is through your art – through your hands. I’m not going to go into her story, but my client/friend went through a hard thing, came out of if, and wanted to have a physical and symbolic reminder to look at every day. She wanted something to remind her that she is strong, and can be strong when different hard things happen later. She likes the ocean, warm colors, and the sunshine. She was so happy when I showed her the finished painting. Sometimes, I feel like I blow off people’s reactions to my art. While I appreciate the “that’s pretty!” I shrug it off more often than I take it in. But when she told me it was perfect and I could see how happy it was going to make her to have the painting, I felt it, for real. While I rarely stop to think about it, I know it is a gift to be able to paint things. It is more of a gift to be able to make people feel good, by painting things for them. And not just "good", but more specifically sometimes it's: closure, release, joy, calm, freedom - validation of the stories in my client's lives. Throughout my years making murals and commissions, I’ve occasionally painted things I deem “ridiculous.” When I take more time to think about it, I know that they are asking for the ridiculous thing because it will mean something to them. It’s about their happiness, not mine. But then also my happiness, by default, in creating theirs. For that, I’m going to practice being more aware, grateful, and honored. <br />
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Corie Hintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04239120092793147515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4275798418177284869.post-60118256668249803692016-03-13T19:25:00.000-07:002016-03-13T19:25:12.969-07:00"Six Strong" Mural Project<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
Hi everyone!</div>
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<br />There's not going to be much happening in the way of murals for a few weeks here (construction scheduling... predictably unpredictable!), but there's a lot of mural-ing on the horizon to be looking forward to! </div>
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<br />Today, I finished this sketch for one of the future projects that I'm most excited to be a part of. I was asked to be one of six female mural artists/street artists to collaborate with on one large mural in NE Portland (the Alberta Arts district, if you're familiar with Portland.) I am super honored to be sharing a wall with each of these five talented women! We'll each get one 4'x8' panel to do whatever we want with, as long as it relates to the theme of "female empowerment." The panels don't have to relate to each other in terms of style or color, or anything other than the theme. Instead, each panel is supposed to represent it's individual artist's aesthetic. <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/sixstrong" target="_blank">You can learn more about the project on the Go Fund Me page here.</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.gofundme.com/sixstrong" target="_blank"><br /></a>I was working with two main ideas to make my sketch:</div>
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<br />1. The idea that feeling strong, capable, empowered, and independent, but also presenting as "femme", can exist together in the same person. Someone should feel that it's ok to identify as a woman and a feminist, and present themselves as traditionally feminine - or not - as they want. Break the molds, break through stereotypes, break the glass ceiling. But feel that it's also ok to paint your nails and wear pink and glitter along the way, if it makes you feel good to do those things. I'm not sure I'm explaining the idea well enough. Basically, I think it should be considered a legit choice to be a super badass and also glittery if you want to be glittery. Sparkle on!<br /><br />2. The idea that we are strong through each other and through our communities. I liked the imagery that came up when I thought about women very literally, lifting each other up to positions of greater power and strength.</div>
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Hopefully, at least a little of those ideas, or at least positive, empowering vibes, comes across in my panel when it's done. I'm excited to paint this BIG! And extra EXTRA excited to use this much pink glitter on one piece. ;)</div>
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Happy one-extra-hour-of-daylight, loves.</div>
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<br />Corie</div>
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