Victoriei 18
Restaurant, Bucharest

Illustration for the back wall and bar, hand painted in acrylic markers.

This is my first attempt at wall painting. Sure, it took preparation, sketching, tracing and about 3 loong days of standing on a ladder (channeling my inner Michelangelo) but in the end it was an extremely fun process. It was created for a new restaurant in the Bucharest city center located at 18, Victoriei street (as you have probably guessed).

Until the 80s the place was one of the few fashion stores in Bucharest and the restaurant pays tribute to its history: the wall painting incorporates the old company sign and the restaurant's windows double as Romanian design showcases.  

The drawing was, therefore, supposed to play with the idea of creative process, design, manufacture. So we decided to show how a client's imagination is transformed into the delicious food that she wished for through an incredible, half-magical, half- scientific contraption.

Since then, the restaurant was sold, redesigned, and the wall painted over. 

If you are curious to see, this is how I did it: 

I made a digital collage of the sketches to figure out the composition:

The layout was projected on the wall and finely traced in pencil. Everything was then drawn in detail using acrylic markers (which are amazing to work with, by the way!). The spatial letters were added. Afterwards, my lovely friends helped with painting in the orange background.

And we ended up with this:

Here are some details: