The Artist Corner Café

The Ceilings
The ceiling in the cafe needed lots of attention. Buechel felt he needed to make a statement-And that statement needed to be both exciting and spirited. After chosing the style of Jackson Pollock the dilemma was how to create and reverse engineer Pollock's style. It's difficult enough to imitate a Pollock while having a canvas on the floor but above and on such a large surface was some enterprise. The desired effect was accomplished.

Later a 72" x 72" charcoal drawing on gallery canvas was added and suspended from the ceiling depicting yet another master-Hieronymus Bosch. Small square gallery canvas's with solidly painted colors were also suspended from the ceiling which represented the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian, founder of the neoplasticism movement, better know as "The Style".

The Floors-Pioneering A Technique
After hours of specially preparing the concrete surface with waterproofing paint the first coats of Eric Buechel's design begin to develop on the surface. A combination of styles from Van Gogh and Monet begin to emerge on the floor of the cafe. As the first layers of paint dry others are added along with a glazing technique. The glazing is used to emulate depth to the surface. The lighting from above is able to penetrate the multiple glazing layers(6), which produce an atmospheric effect similar to the results artists were able to do during the mid-19th century called the Hudson River School.

The Finished Product

Not really. It's very diffucult to say the words finished when it comes to art. And it's even more difficult when there is so many surfaces to paint on. The next floor surface will be started Janurary 31, 2009 and it will be another one of our dining rooms that measures 17' across. The painting Eric has chosen for the next floor mural is by Georges Seurat, the founder of the 19th-century French school of Neo-Impressionism. The title of the painting is called,

"Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte". The painting will be a meticulous build up of color, tone and the overlaying of pigments. The floor mural will begin with an orange base color and the image will begin with a sepia and olive brown base for the tone. As the picture develops lighter colors using his pointillism technique will be placed on top of darker base tones giving the image depth. Nothing here is given to chance and mistakes at this size can be both timely and costly.