Saturday, April 9, 2011

Congregation Sherith Israel, San Francisco, CA

Finished plaster repair and in-painting in entry lobby
Cracks and flaking paint have been repaired
Priming and base coating plaster patch

Molding repaired by plaster contractor

mismatched colors, and flaking over-paint
Plaster consolidation
During in-painting

Stanford Graduate School of Business Dining Hall, Palo Alto, CA

Sample (left) for 150 of hand painted palm fronds, 3 colors
24ft pounce pattern
Pouncing 24 ft x 5 ft pattern
Finished three color painting

Finished painting

Friday, April 8, 2011

Historic Alameda Theater Curtain, Alameda, CA

Bottom, right side of the historic Art Deco curtain had been water damaged, and repaired with a mismatched piece of velvet.





Detail of 47 ft x 7 ft piece of velvet to be repair
Bottom right velvet piece has been replaced, and stenciled, the pattern and colors were copied and matched from the intact left side of the curtain.
Jim Luque, and his brother-in-law sewed the new piece of velvet on an industrial machine, and artist Beate Brühl.
Hand cut stencils, 5ft x 4 ft, running 3 colors at the same time
Backstage, new stenceling with hand matched colors, 2:00am
                     
Hanging of newly repaired curtain
                                                          
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