Member-only story
Landing Mural Jobs — Fourth Quarter Begins pg268
Colorful companion to my memoir The Incompetent Psychic
The seven-foot tall, faux marble corinthian column I painted on the front of my festival booth to look like it was dancing had successfully attracted a few lucrative mural jobs over time. An elaborate mural was commissioned by a gentleman who was a fan of old John Ford movies, and imagined his home office sitting in the middle of the Monument Valley. A pleasant couple with a ranch in the Moraga hills found me at the Lafayette fair and requested their horses be painted full size on the stable. Later they commissioned murals for an elaborate new patio, and a wine cellar where the vaulted end wall became an illusionary doorway into a vast French wine cave — complete with a life-size, memorial portrait of a beloved sister. — From Chapter 15
