MURAL ART in UCA Berkeley!

MURAL ART @ UCA BERKELEY!

Casa de Cultura

It has being 3 months since I've started working on my spare time on the weekends for a mural, to improve and give life to BRASIL CASA de CULTURA, (Brazilian culture house, where much happens there, from concerts to music to dancing to playing music and capoeira, covering cultures from south america to the north.)

It has being a very gratifying experience and lots of hard work, due to the sheer scale and specially due to the rough texture of the wall. I had the opportunity to coordinate 4 others hard working artists to make this vision come through. I've made numerous sketches and different color palletes of the illustration to be used for this mural that I hope to post them up here soon.

A lot of people have being asking to see a picture of it. So here is a glimpse of it. But if you would like please come by @ San Pablo and University in North Berkeley from a closer look and if you stop by on Saturdays or Sundays you may catch me there finishing it.

-Kjeld Pedersen   / Requeijao ( a type of soft cheese, my capoeira name)

Sunnier day! About 50 buckets of mixed paint...

 Early work, adding a figure playing the berimbau

Some early tests with projection in my garage, and card board masks but the area was too big for it. So we went with a grid.

Early sketch that didn't get used, the beginning of a game.

Cleaning it up. Splitting the planes and figures.

Used Sketch for Mestre Accordeon done at a coffee shop, the original is 10X larger!

More to come!