STREET PAINTING

Let me just say that I do not consider myself a street painter, but I really enjoy the community interaction that comes from it. I don't keep count, but I'd bet that I haven't made 10 street paintings. The fact that I have been invited to street painting festivals across the USA is perhaps not so much a testimony to my virtuosity as it is to my enthusiasm. If the inspiration were there, I'm sure that I could make a street painting to end all street paintings. To date, I have preferred to focus my energies on other things, but one day maybe…

Something that I designed for CBS The Early Show, which aired Wednesday, July 22, 2009


Please consider that, unlike the excellent street paintings that you'll find on the internet that took the artist (or, in Edgar Meuller's case, team of artists) all day, and some cases, more than one day to create, I completed this within the show's airtime, which is 2 hours, while being prodded and interrupted by cameramen and anchors, and while wearing a wire through which the director kept in constant communication with me.

In the book, The Essential Street Painter's Guide, by Rick Compton. I am featured in chapter eight, in which I take the reader through the step-by-step process of creating my 3-D Emerging Elvis. This is the first time an explanation of how 3-D sidewalk paintings are made has ever appeared in print. Here is a LINK to the BOOK and a VIDEO of the author and myself on CBS The Early Show.