I was commissioned to create a book cover image for a friend. This one was rejected but still kinda fun. #frescoart

A WPA-style mural depicting industrial laundry and textile workers in a busy factory setting. At the center, a confident woman in a gray dress stands triumphantly with arms raised overhead, holding aloft a white sheet against a warm golden-yellow background. Clotheslines strung with white garments and linens frame both sides of the composition. Large wooden industrial wringer machines with spoked wheels dominate the foreground, with workers — men and women — actively operating them and handling fabric rolls. In the lower left, laborers lay brick walls, suggesting construction and progress. Dark swirling smoke clouds billow in the upper corners, contrasting with the radiant golden light behind the central figure. The color palette features deep earth tones of brick red and brown alongside muted blues and grays, characteristic of 1930s American social realist muralism. The overall composition conveys themes of labor, industry, dignity of work, and collective effort, rendered in a bold, flat, figurative style typical of Depression-era public art.

Industrial Memory Across Timeless Walls
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A mural-style painting framed within an arched architectural border, depicting a vibrant Latin American market scene. In the foreground, abundant tropical fruits are arranged in colorful pyramidal displays, including mangoes, cherimoyas, sugar apples, dragon fruit, artichokes, yellow lemons, and green figs in rich oranges, greens, yellows, and deep reds. Market vendors and community members — men and women of Latin descent — stand behind the fruit stalls, their expressions serious and dignified. Warm amber pendant lights hang from wooden ceiling beams, illuminating the bustling crowd that extends deep into the background. Most striking is the dramatic sky visible through an open ceiling or skylight, where a total solar eclipse dominates the upper center — a black disc ringed by a glowing white corona against a star-filled night sky, creating a powerful celestial contrast with the earthly abundance below. The painting style echoes the Mexican muralism tradition, reminiscent of Diego Rivera's social realist works, with bold forms, flattened perspective, and monumental figures. The composition celebrates community, cultural heritage, and the richness of indigenous foods. Paint drips visible at the bottom edge suggest the work is painted on a weathered plaster wall. A partial artist signature appears in the lower left corner.

Eclipse Darkens the Mexican Marketplace
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A barely surviving first century depiction of Pan reclining with pipes. From portico 1 of the Villa San Marco at Stabiae.

Taken March 2025 at Museo Archeologico di Stabia Libero D’Orsi

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I thought; somehow almost contemporary … a woman depicted in the first century AD at the Villa San Marco at Stabiae.

Picture taken March 25 at Museo Archeologico di Stabia Libero D’Orsi

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A scene depicting a hunt on horseback from the Villa San Marco in Stabiae. Dates to the first century AD.

Picture taken March 25 at Museo Archeologico di Stabia Libero D’Orsi

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