Preliminary sketches
Mural painting by Snake Oil Signs
Photography by Michelle Moyer for Colossal
Adidas x Colossal:
Hit This Ground Running
Completed: May 2017
Art Director: Samm McAlear
Back in 2017, Adidas’ Brooklyn Creator Farm collaborated with Colossal Media on a multi-mural project promoting their new shoe, the Pureboost DPR. I was privileged to be one of several artists selected to design these murals, a real dream come true for an up-and-coming illustrator. This piece, created in Photoshop with layers of paint roller texture, was my attempt to capture the energy and freedom of the urban runner. The mural stood on Grattan Street in Bushwick, between Bogart and Morgan, for several months in the summer of 2017.
Photo credit: Samm McAlear
My parents, posing with the mural on Grattan Street