CALDERA TAP HOUSE

Today was supposed to be the official opening day of the new Caldera Tap House in Ashland, Oregon.

Of course, with only two weeks between the closing of the old Siskiyou Pub (which is the building Caldera is now using for their new tap house) and today, I knew it was optimistic to think they'd open today.

Actually, I'm glad, 'cause I would have really had to rush this painting I'm working on, and it's my first time using house paints of any kind, let alone using them for painting a large detailed image on a wall that's got a surface like the moon. I was stoked that Caldera decided to use the more expensive environmentally friendly paints, both for the greater good and for myself having to breathe the fumes while working indoors.

Below is the label I did for Caldera's Ashland Amber. There's a projector inside facing the stage, and the idea was to get the label on a CD and project it on the wall to trace. However, the DVD player the projector's hooked up to wouldn't read the CD, so I had to take this shot of the printed version with my cheap digital camera and use the DVD player's USB port to get the image to finally show up on the wall. This only took two days to figure out...


Here's a couple of shots of the paints used:



Drawing the outline on the rough wall using a slightly out-of-focus projector was a challenge, but it came out okay in the end.


I had to mix my own paints, and I screwed up the first mix of purple, which ended up being too dark for the section I used it on. I'll have to go back over it tomorrow with the right color. I added the yellow lines for the veins in the hop leaves and called it a day.