Elgin Outdoor Mural

A collaboration project with Elgin Main Street and Elgin artist William Montgomery. Bill Montgomery is in the in progress photo with me to the right. This is the back of his building, his studio is on the second floor. Elgin's Main Street Design Committee wanted to add more public art downtown and saw an opportunity to highlight a local artist's work. He is an artist who works at a smaller canvas scale, so I was called in with the honor of enlarging the original piece to mural size.

Bill does a lot of nature art focusing on animals in their environment. He told me he highlighted the Texas Horned Lizard in this one as a cautionary tale of extinction. The horned lizard use to be all over central Texas and in almost every county. Apparently efforts to rid fire ants led to killing of harvest ants, which are the horned lizard's primary food source, and caused the lizards to die off too. There are some efforts to repopulate the horned lizard going on today. Here is one giant artistic re-population for Elgin.
Bill's website: www.williambmontgomery.com — at Visit Elgin, TX.

Time-lapse video of the project:

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