The meeting has come and gone and now it’s time to put the pencil to paper. The design will be twenty feet wide and will include a Pacific ocean view, a motorist overlook, a vintage gas station, a popular bridge and this beautiful 1936 Ford Woody wagon!
With the addition of a new showroom at The Overstreet House of Cars a new mural has been ordered. Initial discussions and preliminary designs have been produced for the second mural at the newest classic car museum in the midwest. Leading the list of potential concepts is the depiction of the great Pacific Coast Highway. Composite roughs first and then the final drawing will need to be approved. The area for the new scene will be an estimated twenty feet wide and created on canvas.
Ray Harvey is in the initial design discussions with the owner of the new Victorian Manor Senior Housing complex in washington, MO. The theme of this location will be The Washington Town & Country fair. This theme is sure to be locally popular in it’s visual appearance. The murals which will grace a total of eleven walls will include a train station, steam train, Bi-plane amusement ride, helicopter amusement ride, three arcade games and several scenery designs. The project is waiting for construction progress but the anticipated artwork should begin in a few weeks. This project marks the fifth Victorian Manor location Mr. Harvey has painted for. The other locations are in Sullivan, St. Clair and two in Cuba, MO.
As I sit here updating blogs, emails and social media I can look across the field in rural Missouri wondering what kind of life this is for a public art muralist. it’s a long time till Spring and further from last summer. Twenty-four inches of snow just isn’t conducive to good mural making! So you think, dream and wonder about warmer times. I want to share an actual posting I came across on Craig’s List this morning. (Since there is nothing else better to do) I thought it was humorous and might take the edge off of your snowy Tuesday.
Time Travel
Date: 2010-09-24, 10:09AM
I have a functioning time machine (i know it sounds unbelievable, but I assure you it works) that I need a 2nd person to operate with me.
I’m looking for someone who is adventurous and reliable. Preferable a male; or a female that can do heavy lifting.
I am leaving on September 30th, 2010, in the morning and plan to return October 2nd, 2010. I am going to June 1983 to handle some business.
If you are serious about time travel and are reliable, then please contact me. You do not have to pay anything, but you would have to provide someone to watch my cat for the time we are gone. The only qualifications needed are that you are reliable and that the circumferance of your head is no more than 64cm.
We will be leaving from Bozeman, MT. Let me know if you want to go with me.
Yesterday marked the completion of the anticipated 150′ wide transportation mural commissioned by Midwest Petroleum at the Cuba Midwest TruckPort. The scene consists of twenty-three vehicles seen along the Mother Road of Route 66. This includes favorite classic cars, transport trucks, service trucks and futuristic Streamliner trains. This group of scenes mark the twenty-fifth mural Ray Harvey has completed in the Cuba Route 66 area. To date no artist has been known for this feat along the historic highway. Many of the vehicles can be viewed by clicking on the gallery page and selecting the Midwest photo set.
The final draft of the anticipated article featuring Ray Harvey is in the final stages for the upcoming Missouri Route 66 magazine. The article will be the feature story which includes a mural sample on the cover page. Cuba writer Jane Reed is composing the story requested by the editor. The article documents Mr. Harvey’s beginnings in the art industry leading up to his notoriety as the most visible painter of public art on the Mother Road Route 66.
What began with a fifty foot wide scene of classic cars last May has turned into a 150′ wide continual scene which nears completion. The transportation mural which shows classic cars, transport vehicles, service trucks and beautiful Streamliner trains will be completed this week. The Midwest Petroleum Travel center is the proud home of the newest public art adjacent to Route 66. There are 23 total vehicles in the painting. Prints and T-shirt designs are in the planning stages.
One hundred of the planned one hundred fifty foot progressive mural is near completion. The project began with a fifty foot long depiction of classic cars on Route 66. The next two twenty-five foot sections showed nostalgic trucking vehicles including transport, wreckers, a greyhound bus, milk truck, fire truck and Ice Cream truck. This now leaves the remaining fifty-foot section depicting nostalgic train travel. The mural which wil be seen by thousands of travelers along Interstate 44 and Route 66 is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
The sixty foot wide Drive-In mural at the new Overstreet House of Cars is now complete. After six weeks of very hot weather the mural is ready to view. The Painting is titled “The Sumer of ’74″. The scene depicts a summer evening at the Scenic View drive-in at anywhere, USA. A little nostalgia, some cool cars and a lot of color make the large scale scene come to life. The classic car museum will soon be open to visitors. This is the first in a series of original paintings for the new location in Creve Coeur, MO.
Despite interior temperatures of ninety-six degrees, initial work of the new classic car mural at the Overstreet House of Cars began this week. Much acrylic retarder was used as the paint almost dried on the brush but the art must go on. The scene which measures 60′ wide by 18′ tall shows a vintage Drive-In Movie setting. The title of the painting is “The Summer of ’69″. The scene will take weeks to finish and will serve as a visual backdrop to the more than sixty classic cars in the museum. This pencil sketch shows the preliminary design. Stay tuned for art update photos.
