FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
Varies but based on $50 - $60 hour for professional services plus expenses. Murals generally range from about $9 to as much as $20 per square foot depending on many variables related to each location and mural detail. Average 10-12.50 sq.ft with a usual minimum of $1500.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
It starts with a phone conversation. Every customer has an idea of what they want. The first step is helping them refine and explain it in such a way as I can begin conceptualizing and visualizing it well enough to begin to put the idea into visual form. I ask a lot of questions to understand what visual style fits their idea or purpose. Early on, if practical I'll visit the location of the work, get a sense of how the work fits into the existing architecture and the condition of the surface on which the mural will go. Sometimes photos will serve that purpose well enough. We'll talk about the different ways creation of the mural can occur, depending on factors including whether painting directly on the wall is practical or too disruptive (as in an existing open for business commercial enterprise). Those conversations lead to a decision on method, schedule, adjustments to bid pricing, and installation. Once we're on the same page on everything, and an agreement is reached then I begin preparing detailed design proposal drawings/renders showing the potential future work incorporated into photos of the site location. Feedback results in refining the art concept sketches shared via email or text until the design is approved when I begin scaling it up to full size in the method agreed upon. That might be paint on the wall itself or on canvas or vinyl done in my studio for later installation on site or printed from high resolution digital painting onto canvas to be installed like wallpaper. But it all comes down to having discussions face to face or via phone.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
AAS interdisciplinary management with an art direction focus - SWTSU 1984, MA photojournalism UT Austin 1990, ABD PhD Advertising Psychology UT Austin. Studied painting under Simon Michael, Texas Impressionist. Years as Exhibit Department Designer for the San Antonio Museum Association. Decades of experience as set & production designer & or painter for films and stage productions. That expertise is incorporated into many mural projects with the inclusion of integrated lighting systems and actual architectural or sculptural elements to truly transform the spaces to accomplish specific moods and feelings as well as integrate with any interior design of the location.