Greetings from Red Hook in Brooklyn, NY! This mural happened a few months before the actual concept of Greetings Tour came about. Victor's friend, Emma Wall who also grew up in New York City, reached out about her father/artist Beriah Wall needing some color on a blank gate outside his studio. We decided it would be a fun thing to do as a team, considering we had not been on a project together since the day we met. Within one short day in Brooklyn, Greetings from Red Hook was created!

After lunch break we got a private tour of Beriah's life work of paintings, ceramics and coin making. He shared the process of his clever double-sided coins he tosses all over the city for people to find. If you live in New York, you have most likely seen them. Sometimes political, sometimes not, but always a simple message he makes to share. He later invited us to his house for a dinner with Emma to celebrate the mural.

Brooklyn Mural Artist Sketches Red Hook Mural Lettering

Keep in mind this piece was an impromptu freestyle and painted way before the concept of our traveling postcard project. At the time, we didn’t really focus on the artwork being scaled for interactive photos but this one worked out. Usually, we would prime the entire surface, but we only primed the space where the lettering would be filled in and utilized the existing background to keep it looking more gritty. Victor comes from a background as a graffiti artist, so he didn’t think of this as a public art mural but a temporary street art piece. Little did we know how popular these murals would get.

This was one of our first murals together before we got the RV. Check out the messy supplies in the back of the Honda Element. We’ve come a long way with organizing our supplies and definitely don’t take the RV for granted. It’s become so amazing to have everything we need all in one place and literally our home on wheels these days.

Red Hook Mural Artwork in Progress - Greetings from Redhook

We decided to reincorporate the “John Elway” graffiti back into the piece as a little humor. We have no idea what the story was there but thought it was funny and wanted to pay tribute to those before us. There’s nothing better than some civilian stret graffiti. Some of the local firefighters in the nearby station stopped by to check out what we were up to.