Meghan Taylor: Illustration & Graphic Design

Lessons in Beer and Art

Ah, alcohol and paint – to me this is a blissfully perfect union. I indulged in this very pairing last week during an orientation and training for Blue Moon Beer and its campaign for beer-centric Community Created Art. (More updates on this forthcoming. Suffice it to say that soon I will be in bars in NYC helping fellow beer drinkers make art and learn about Blue Moon).

What I got from the training was a wonderful lesson in the history of Blue Moon, and great respect for its founder and master brewers. It is definitely a craft beer, and tasting Blue Moon’s other beer inventions was a delightful and explorative adventure for the tastebuds.

I also met a plethora of other muralists (wow, ever been in a room with 30 other people with the exact same, very specific, interest in common? Its startling how the conversation gets so detailed so fast.), which was completely inspiring. I am excited to start working with Blue Moon on this campaign. yay for art, beer, and murals!

Underground Visual Treats

This is the subway station where I wait after painting class at the Art Students League. As I wait, I always find myself admiring the way the 59s are cropped via the line of black tiles running behind them… and each iteration is cropped differently, leaving different parts of the 59 to bleed into white space. Its a subtle design treat.

Mural Scouting, & Hello from NYC!

First off, please excuse my absence. I’ve been through a tumult of changes, including moving up to New York and enrolling in a graphic design program, starting a full-time job, and developing a rock/ice climbing habit. Murals are still a part of my artsy soul, so I vow to restablish my posting habits. In the future, I’ll likely post about design, oil paints, and other areas i love - widening the net, but hopefully providing interesting artsy fun for anyone out there who happens to be reading this. 

With that, here’s my first Mural Scouting entry in my new New York home. Sunday night a friend and I drove into the city to see some amazing musicians performing Ives and Mozart at the Poisson Rouge on Bleeker Street in downtown. The music was gorgeously arresting, and the drinks fabulous (try The Garfunkel there! Hendriks gin with rosemary, sage, and parlsey, … but strangely no thyme). The happy bonus was stumbling upon two murals on the way over. First, this lively colorful array of bubbly faces and expressions on the corner of Bleeker and Houston.

Then, outside The Red Lion (a place I’ve never been inside, but is just a few doors down from Poisson Rouge) is this mural:

Met Branch Trail Mural: Before & After

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Check out more shots and the community that helped to paint these murals here.