Recent photos of our work and a generational story

Frank Foreman the oldest barber in Nebraska at one point had his shop in what is now the south side of the Bohemian cafe. His grandson came by this week to see the image of his grandpa we painted and we got his picture posing next to Frank.

Progress on 13th Street Mural

Here is our work so far on our mural about the neighborhood around 13th and William in Omaha. Lots of community meetings and lots of research went into it see more at Facebook.com/13th streetmuralomaha. Can you find the references in the mural to the photos below it? The paintings are from Alphonse Mucha, who is a Czech artist. One of the houses is the one Phil Whorley grew up in. One of the street scenes is from 1951.

13th street community mural

We have been having community meetings and interviewing all kinds of residents and business folks on South 13th street in Omaha. We set up a Facebook page to explain it and get community participation. Visit it at https://www.facebook.com/13thstreetomahamural. This is pretty close to our final design. It has been a great joy to work on this project.

I touched up a mural I painted of Venice 11 years ago.

I had to change some details (new family dog in the gondola) but the painting was holing up well.