Speakeasy Art Center Studio 3rd Floor in Pekin Illinois 353 Court St.
So I rented a corner in an old crumbling building called The Speakeasy gallery in Pekin Illinois. It’s located right across from the courthouse on Court Street! I’m on the 3rd floor with some other cool artists (go up the stairs in the corner in the bottom gallery turn right and go up again!).As you can see from the pic I have started some paintings that are 9ft high and 6ft wide, two panels that size in my corner! I have another space right next to this where I will do another oil painting on the wall approximately 10ft high and 9 feet wide, wow! Scale can be an awesome factor in art! On the scaffold I feel like Michelangelo painting the Sistine chapel!
Here is me, Darren Daz Cox, in front of the work in progress "Allegory of an Artistic Inspiration".
Here is the original pencil sketch I drew as a starting idea. I wanted to show "inspiration" in an allegorical form, the angel grabs inspiration from "heaven" and throws it to the girl painting. The girl sleeping is sending her inspirational dreams up to heaven or the collective unconscious etc. It is a loose concept with plenty of room for exciting things to happen, like the dragon who just magically appeared! 
Sketch for the walls of The Speakeasy Gallery in Pekin Illinois by Darren Daz Cox
In case you just found this post randomly, here is the next phase of the mural!
and here is the most current version! I need to take a better pic but you can see how much detail was added!
and now I am working on the next section of wall so the whole thing is getting to the size of a Thomas Hart Benton mural yea!
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June 8th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Can’t wait to see it complete! Great start. Do you do much mural work?
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