First Update of Spring 2007

Its been a busy winter since my last e-mail update, with several new exciting developments both professional and personal. I have been fortunate to have had some fantastic contracting opportunities creating some unique faux finishes in a few gorgeous homes here in San Diego, with a couple of fun mural projects coming this summer. If you haven't been to my site in a while, check out the new streamlined www.john-scenic.com (launched a few weeks ago) featuring some of this new work as well as regular RSS updates from my blog handpaintedmuralsfauxfinishwalls.blogspot.com. I started the blog in order to write more easily about different aspects of what I'm doing with custom handpainted murals, faux finishes, and my fine and applied art projects as well post pictures of different projects and processes that don't fit anywhere on my site. Its also allowed me to answer questions I've received via e-mail at greater length and in more detail and share both questions and responses with a larger audience. Today I want to invite everyone to this weekend's ArtWalk event in Little Italy, where I will have a booth (#786) for the third year. This year I'll be showing all new fine art paintings I've been developing with my agent, Tom Pergola. Signing with Tom is one of the past winter's events I am really excited about, especially since Tom recently secured my first art publishing contract for the new paintings. I will write about the details later, but here is the most recent version of the first painting in the series that started it all: I will be showing this painting and two others from this series this weekend at ArtWalk, as well as some smaller skyscapes, one really large painting, and the beginnings of a new series of mixed media paintings that have evolved out of some of the more elaborate faux finish projects I have been doing. There is a lot more news on the professional side that will have to wait until later posts (I have to get down to the studio now....), but I do want to share one more important event in our creative development here, which is the confirmed arrrival of our second child, a little girl, due this September 21st (yes, the day after Hunter's birthday). This is the first official announcement now that Heather has cleared the first trimester with flying colors. I have also started a MySpace page, muralssandiego, to write and post pictures of more personal stuff for friends and family (like pics from our recent vacation in Kauai, coming soon). Check it out if you have a chance, and check the blog for further updates about my fine art, prints when they become available, custom mural and faux finish work.