Another big Joe Pagac mural: Zion City (Murals being made, part 70)

Q: How big is Joe Pagac's new mural?

A: Look at the bottom left below. The red box marks an SUV in the parking lot under the mural:

It's pretty big: 6800 square feet, Joe says.

For another perspective, here's an aerial photo taken April 25 by BG Boyd Photography (thanks, BG!):

Next, a photo of the blank wall from @joepagac on Instagram, February 14. By comparing it to the photos above, I'd say it's showing less than half the width of the wall. And if you look closely, you'll see a tiny person in the middle at the bottom. That's Joe:

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I stopped by on February 21 and was lucky to find Joe there, just starting to paint:

An Arizona Daily Star article said he planned to finish around mid-April: Tucson artist Joe Pagac works on his largest mural yet.

On April 6, Joe's Instagram had a photo of volunteers painting:

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I came back on April 27th to see the finished mural. Here are photos from roughly left to right:

When I stood next to the prickly pear at the bottom left of the photo above, I noticed that Joe used loose brushstrokes, as you'll see below. When you stand back a ways (which is normal for such a big mural!), the brushstrokes look just fine:

I'm always interested in how muralists deal with parts of the building like doors and pipes. For instance:

Next, looking in from the right side and at the middle:

The signatures of Joe and his crew are hard to spot. Usually they're at one end of a mural. In this case, they're below and to the right of the lion. I've highlighted them in the first photo:

A new long mural along Prince (Murals being made, part 68)

For years, a long mural east of Amphi Middle School has been fading in the strong southern sun. Joe Pagac started painting a new mural in late 2021 and finished it in 2022:

The mural used to look like this (the photo is from our December 21, 2009 post, A long mural along Prince, which also has closer shots):

I found out that the mural was being repainted in Joe's Facebook post on November 9, 2021:



I stopped by on December 18, 2021, hoping to catch the mural in progress. I did:

I snapped close-up photos of the mural from left (west) to right (east). Those pictures are below, the first of each pair of photos. I came back on February 21, 2022 to snap pictures of the completed mural. Those are the second of each pair below:

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(In case you haven't figured it out by now, the school's mascot is a pirate.)

Joe Pagac's mural map and ours

You've seen at least some of Joe Pagac's murals around town. I just read that Joe has a map of his murals visible to the public on his website: joepagac.net/mural-map.

While I'm at it, I'd like to mention the map of hundreds of the murals on this blog. It's by far the most complete map of Tucson murals that I've seen. Co-editor David Aber maintains it. To see the map and how to use it, click on “Mural map” near the top-right corner of any blog page. Or go directly via http://map.tucsonmurals.org. (If your browser warns that map.tucsonmurals.org is insecure (it isn't) and you're concerned, here's a link direct to Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/0m9ja.)

An unusual shopper

It's Christmas Eve. Maybe you need to rush out for some last-minute shopping? One character can't get enough of the La Encantada shopping center… she's there every time you stop by:

It's another of Joe Pagac's critter murals — this time with a huge turquoise necklace and a bunch of shopping bags.

Here are some close-ups:

I shopped until I dropped on November 20th.