Bee Mural

Bee Wall Art

Artist: John Potter - Escape Key Graphics
Client: Boca Grove Golf and Country Club

Acrylic Paint

I just completed this mural for Boca Grove Golf and Tennis Club.

This was inspired by the works of Eduardo Kobra as requested by the client. The bee itself was fun and pretty quick work since it's monochrome but any mistakes would have been pretty unforgiving and required repainting the pattern below. The color pattern below was very labor intensive and took a while. Kobra tends to use random colors in simple shapes. Being a nerd, I chose to instead create a horizontal banded spectrum with each color being represented by a staggering vertical column of isometric cubes. Each cube required three colors that I needed pre-mixed. These were mostly based off of Golden brand mural paints but some were artists paints and house paint. Even with the abundance of paint I had on hand I still had to mix a lot of colors. I had a rudimentary organizational system with letters and numbers scrawled on paint cans, solos cups and jars all over the place. Everything was done in acrylic with either a brush but some of the bee is acrylic paint markers.

I later used this same isometric cube color spectrum theme in a mural for Boca Woods.

This was not the only mural in the room and I've added some photos here showing how it all fits together.