Hurricane Mural

With Hurricane Katrina pounding New Orleans and Mississippi all day today, I couldn't help but be reminded of this unique mural we created for a store at the DFS Galleria Mall in Saipan.

It was a surf shop, and they wanted a big mural of a hurricane, which was certainly an unusual subject - even more odd is that they wanted it painted on the floor.

But with Silver Hill Atelier, we paint the murals our clients ask for. 

Norvel, the Silver Hill's owner and chief artist airbrushed the mural based on a satellite reference photo of a hurricane we had been given by the client.

We paint cloud murals all the time, but they are usually more of the calm and bucolic variety.  I think Norvel took a particular interest in the challenges of painting the dramatic power of the clouds that make up these vast (and vastly destructive) storm systems.