Mural In Hollywood, Florida

We recently travelled diagonally across the US from Pacific Northwest to Florida visiting Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Miami, and Key West. Besides needing a break from the rainy spring days in Oregon, we ventured to the east coast to help a friend with a mural project she was commissioned for by the Hollywood Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). Artists, like our friend Lizzy Bromley, were hired to help beautify this particular area of Hollywood with their specific style of art.

The mural project’s goal is to curate outdoor murals in targeted locations near downtown to enhance and enrich the existing cultural fabric of the community while attracting more art-related activities, businesses, and events.

The project we were working on spanned the length of a large city block. Luckily for us, Lizzy had prepped and finished at least a quarter of the sidewalk before we arrived. Lizzy’s full-time role is the Art Director for Simon and Schuster, a well-known publisher headquartered in New York City. Her work has a very playful and unique look, be sure to check out her Instagram. While Lizzy is used to painting on just about anything from conventional paper to lush dried leaves and the palm fronds that fall just outside her doorstep, this mural was her largest-scale project yet.

Lizzy first created a scaled mockup in Illustrator, using the natural breaks in the sidewalk as a grid to guide the art’s placement. Next, we cleaned and primed the sidewalk. After it dried, we painted on the pink background as a base. Lizzy used chalk to outline the shapes corresponding to her mockup we would later fill in with blue paint. The shapes have a fun and loose aesthetic, so she was able to easily freehand the art using the mockup as a reference. All that was left was a coat of commercial sealer to protect it from Florida’s occasional storms and intense sun, and we were done.

To see the finished piece via drone, check out Lizzy’s Instagram page. https://www.instagram.com/lizabethanne/