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The blank wall of a bakery that dominates a Main Street block is slowly adding color to downtown with brush strokes of mural artist Greg Bloom.
He usually works on the mural early in the morning or late at night whenever he gets time but this Saturday Bloom will work on the mural in the morning until noon to demonstrate his work as part of the Clatter and Splatter art festival. He will also answer questions from onlookers.
In the first complete panel on the wall of Butternut Bread Bakery, a shaft of wheat on a cobalt blue sky, which took Bloom a month to finish, stands out with its simplistic design and vivid colors.
The artist is now working on a scene from the First Battle of Boonville for the second out of nine panels on the stretch.
Murals give the artist a wider canvas but painting on a brick surface outdoors means it is more challenging that usual. For Bloom, it was an opportunity that was hard to pass even though he had little exposure to mural painting. And for Boonville residents, the mural will be a celebration of iconic images of the rivertown with farmlands, steamboats and trains.
"It was an experiment," said Bloom, a former tattoo artist who settled in his wife's hometown three year's ago.
Want to read more? Grab a copy of the Boonville Daily News e-edition after 3 p.m. today.
The blank wall of a bakery that dominates a Main Street block is slowly adding color to downtown with brush strokes of mural artist Greg Bloom.
He usually works on the mural early in the morning or late at night whenever he gets time but this Saturday Bloom will work on the mural in the morning until noon to demonstrate his work as part of the Clatter and Splatter art festival. He will also answer questions from onlookers.
In the first complete panel on the wall of Butternut Bread Bakery, a shaft of wheat on a cobalt blue sky, which took Bloom a month to finish, stands out with its simplistic design and vivid colors.
The artist is now working on a scene from the First Battle of Boonville for the second out of nine panels on the stretch.
Murals give the artist a wider canvas but painting on a brick surface outdoors means it is more challenging that usual. For Bloom, it was an opportunity that was hard to pass even though he had little exposure to mural painting. And for Boonville residents, the mural will be a celebration of iconic images of the rivertown with farmlands, steamboats and trains.
"It was an experiment," said Bloom, a former tattoo artist who settled in his wife's hometown three year's ago.
Want to read more? Grab a copy of the Boonville Daily News e-edition after 3 p.m. today.
