Ballard is getting more colorful by the day: a new mural is going up on the side of Obec Brewing.
The muralist is an Obec staff member, Jordan Atkinson.
“It has taken quite awhile to plan and organize this mural project, but it’s finally happening,” Atkinson writes in a recent Instagram post about the mural.
Obec tells My Ballard that it’s an Alphonse Mucha-inspired piece.
“Mucha is a Czech artist, considered to be the father of Art Nouveau. So it combines the Czech piece of our story (Obec —pronounced oh-betz) is the Czech word for community) with an homage to the local brewery scene, as it features the woman carrying hops and wheat in her arms.”
Atkinson has done plenty of murals before, but at 20-feet by 70-feet, it’s the largest he’s done.
The painting is currently still underway — Obec says he’ll be working on it throughout Seattle Beer Week, which kicks off tomorrow, May 9.
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