MURAL ARTS
Artist for Hire ~ Southern Oregon / Grants Pass Muralist
 
John Granacki, mural painter ~ 955-8060
www.johngranacki.com 
 

 
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Here are a few examples from my mural painting portfolio, beginning with a day-and-night landscape from the now-defunct Blue Pine Brew Pub of Grants Pass, Oregon:

 

Alas, the photograph doesn't capture the far right edge, but in addition to Sirius (the star from which the prism-bound beam of light originates) there's a sleepy Man-on-the-Moon in the upper corner to complement Mr. Sunshine at far left. The beam of starlight passes through a heart shaped hole in the pinnacle, then between Mars and Venus, and is then scattered a' la Pink Floyd / Dark Side of the Moon by a prism in the hand of an old wizard—but is it Gandalf or is it Saruman?  The artist has never told, so to be safe it's best to keep a close watch on your beer!


 

Next, a sort of creation-myth mural from the door on the east wall of the Grants Pass Museum of Art, opening into the UU Community Room, which is also a regular hot spot on the Grants Pass First Friday Art Night itinerary. It has various heavenly bodies dancing and cavorting above and about in the light of a Lotus Moon. Meanwhile, slimier reptilian things evolve from the deep. The Earth, according to one old Hindu legend, is supported on the back of a giant tortoise, and cradled within its crescent I've rendered the Archetypal Garden of Earthly Delights.  But there's no serpent in this paradise; not even worms in the apples!


  


This one is painted on the side of my inlaws' garage.  The watermaster made them take the ornamental paddle wheel out of the irrigation ditch, so we took a few paddles off (to make it look as if submerged in the gravel...) and painted a millhouse beside a stream flowing down to the Rogue River, which you can't quite see from the other side of the house on account of bushes and brambles along the banks, but the view actually looks a lot like this from the other side of their mobile. Now their neighbor gets to look at it too—well, sort of...

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Here's a bedroom ceiling mural that is bright and lively in the daytime, yet surrendering gracefully at twilight to the cosmic glory of the night! Hmmm...  I forgot how many angels are up thereabout a dozen I'd guess. Some are standing or sitting on the edges of the clouds, while others are in full flight. Isn't it comforting to know they're there, keeping watch on the world while you peacefully slumber? 


 


Here's the lower half of an upstairs/downstairs nature mural 
recently painted at a Grants Pass area residence.
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 And here's a sign/mural combo, painted in downtown Grants Pass 
at the Old Town Antique Mall, on 6th between H & I Streets.
Grants ass, Oregon ~ Highest per-capita concentration of Antique Dealers in the GALAXY!

 

 

 
     

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