My latest canvas

My latest canvas is really hard -- as in a cement-kind-of-hard. It a Celtic border around the this basement room at P.J. McIntyre'ss which will be for private parties or a place for a more peaceful pint than the crowd packed main floor of the pub. They also want their logo on the floor and another Celtic knot at the base of the stairs. Now that it's done, my knees and elbows are shot. Ouch.

My raw canvas.

5 inch border all the way around the room and hall.

8 foot logo in the center of the floor. To give you an idea of the size -- that purple thing is the folded yoga mat that I used while lying on the floor for 3 days. Ouch.

The finished logo -- no quite dry. Done with Smith's cement stains.

The finished logo, after a contractor applied a diamond coat to seal it.

Dumb things to do when it's 96 degrees outside...

The 806 Wine Bar has a new 2nd patio - smoking and non-smoking. Irish Pete and TJay and some other guys built it and after the concrete was poured, they stamped it with an awesome grapevine pattern. Pete asked me to paint the stamped pattern with some really cool cement stains.
Did I mention that it was 96 degrees yesterday? Way too freakin' hot to lay on the patio, but the detail required up-close-and-personal. For almost 8 hours. I drank almost 2 gallons of water and kept a wet rag around my neck, but it was pretty miserable work. It was worth it though. After I finished, Pete put on a diamond coating and it is stunning!

Later in the day, Pete brought me lounge chair cushions and then an umbrella. It helped a lot. I can't even guess the temperature of the cement, but it burned to touch it.

Of course, every moron that walked by, had to joke about how I had it made, laying down to work. Yuk, yuk, yuk. Yeah, right. come lay down on this HOT cement for a while -- see how you like it. @@

The finished patio.

Where was that shade when I needed it?

The grapevine stamp pattern

Detail after diamond coating