Tuxon Hotel

I found these two murals at the Tuxon Hotel.  They are located on interior walls in tight quarters.  Even though I was using a wide angle lens, I was unable to photograph the complete mural in either case.

The artist is Jessica Gonzales assisted by Dakin Martin.

Lady In Glasses

Lady In Moonlight

Note the bloodthirsty Bat.

 

The following photo was copied from Jessica's Facebook page.  It shows the conditions that make it difficult to obtain complete photos.

Click on any photo for enlarged images.

"Southwest Strings"

By Jessica Gonzales assisted by Dakin Martin.

The aerial photo below is by BG Boyd Photography:

Click on either photo to see larger images of both.

Jessica Gonzales was back at Arizona Picture & Frame

Around the start of 2021, Jessica repainted the south and west sides of the store. Like most of us, the store owners probably couldn't get enough of her great murals, so they hired her again to paint the southeast corner — to the right of the mural she painted before:

She wrote on Instagram that the mural is meant to be seen from the corner, like this:

As you see if you compare the photos of the south wall carefully to the ones from last year, the store has replaced their sign near the ground and added one along the top of her previous mural.

Let's finish with details from near the corner. First, I'm always interested in how muralists work around fixtures and other things that stick out the sides of buildings… like this gas meter:

Jessica worked with Dakin Martin:

I was there on January 8, 2022.

Quetzalcoatl

Facing the Memorial mural for Samantha Silverman in our previous post is a mural on the south wall of Amazing Discoveries. Quetzalcoatl is the feathered serpent god of the Aztec and Toltec cultures.

By Jessica Gonzales assisted by Dakin Martin

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Creative Machines

Tucson has more and more large murals. Which one is biggest? Someday I could get one of the gadgets that lets you measure lengths from a distance. In the meantime, here are two of the largest — at Creative Machines on Irvington. It's probably closed today, New Year's Day, but you should be able to look at the murals from outside the fence. Or stop by during business hours — when you can be right next to them.

There are two murals. The one at the left (farther north) is by Jessica Gonzales and friends; the other is by Nadia Hagen and friends:

The west side and then the south side of Jessica's mural, followed by the signature at the bottom right corner:

Nadia's mural — which is quite a bit wider than Jessica's, so next are a few close-ups:

I took the first photo on November 8, 2020, from outside the fence and the rest from inside the fence on November 9.

Books coming alive

Jessica Gonzales, who's painting a lot of murals, has finished another along the parking lot of Antigone Books on 4th Avenue.

As always, you can click a photo for a larger view. Here's a closeup of the left end of the mural:

Dakin Martin worked with her. Here's a photo of the mural being made, thanks to & Gallery:

The mural's name and credits are at the far right of the first photo above, in the shade:

The photos (except the one from & Gallery) are from April 3rd.

Update (October 19, 2021): There's a new mural at the left edge of this one: "Living" TUCSON AZ mural.