01 / Mural
Desert Bloom Wall
Hand-painted mural · 24 ft · 2025
A century-plant rosette rendered in two inks across the patio wall of a neighborhood cafe. Drawn on paper first, scaled by grid, painted over three mornings.
Longhand is an illustration, mural and hand-lettering studio. Scroll and watch the work draw itself, the same way it is made.
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A century-plant rosette rendered in two inks across the patio wall of a neighborhood cafe. Drawn on paper first, scaled by grid, painted over three mornings.
A single-weight ink study, later printed as a small run of risograph prints for the shop. The kind of spot art that sits happily on a label, a card or a wall.
Hand-lettered and illustrated straight onto the storefront glass, gilded from behind so it catches the afternoon light. Sign painting is drawing that has to last.
A maker's mark drawn by hand, then built clean for print and screen. A brand that looks like a person made it, because one did.
Longhand is a one-person studio. Every commission starts the same way, with a pencil and a bad first sketch, and ends with something drawn cleanly enough to paint on a wall, gild on glass or set as a logo.
The work is deliberately made by hand. It is the reason a mural feels warmer than a printed decal and a logotype feels like it belongs to you, not to a template.
Every job is quoted from the sketch. These are starting points, not a menu.
Prices are demo placeholders. Confirm real starting rates and lead times before go-live.
"We watched the wall go from a pencil grid to a finished mural, and the whole neighborhood stopped to watch too. It draws people in, literally."
Commissions open for fall 2025.