Artist Charlie Kratzer had some bare cream colour walls in his home's basement/entertainment room. Instead of wallpapering or painting the walls, Kratzer decided to put his artistic ability to decorate the room to unique results...

Artist Charlie Kratzer had some bare cream colour walls in his home's basement/entertainment room. Instead of wallpapering or painting the walls, Kratzer decided to put his artistic ability to decorate the room to unique results...

Investing $10 dollars of Magic Marker and Sharpie markers and combining them with his boundless artistic creativity, Kratzer's basement was transformed in a unique gallery of illustrations of fictional and historic personalities such as Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, and even cartoon pals Rocky and Bullwinkle! Admittedly not for everyone, but we're fond of Kratzner's dedication, the unique results and how little it cost him to decorate his home in an individual fashion that will undoubtedly impress guests.



[via Lexington Living]
Wow!
view sassy's profile
this has already been posted.
view lemonpie's profile
Love the charm of this almost Alice in Wonderland effect without being in the least bit silly or feminine. Also must give kudos to the use of black against the butter yellow walls. Very successful use of line and classic motif.
view click212's profile
WOW this is amazing! So cool! I really like the doorway. :)
view Erin Lang Norris/Yellow Canoe's profile
Another repeat post.
view Allsunday's profile
It reminds me of the Three Men and a Baby apartment.
view knars's profile
Hey, maybe it's an editorial correction... this time the guy's name is spelled correctly!
view JH4285's profile
re-post. i even remember commenting.
view maike's profile
Apologies, Charlie Kratzer's name didn't come up in our search database, thus the repeat.
view gregory's profile
sooooooo cool!!!
view mh330's profile
I usually roll my eyes at the cavalcade of comments pointing out a re-post because I understand it can be hard to find fresh topics when you're linking from the very tangled blogosphere where multiple places will cover the same thing, but when it's from a month-plus-old news article, seems like pretty basic due diligence to scan for earlier posts covering the topic (since it seems awfully unlikely for something as cool as this to go overlooked).
view arttarte's profile
I'm glad it was posted again! I've never seen it.
This is the kind of thing I come to AT for.
awesome.
view baba yaga's profile
That's really unique and cool. Just hope he has a steady hand and didn't screw up anywhere... white out?
view Goosebucket's profile
hate re-posts, BUT lucky me; missed it the first time, and am thus in awe now. thanks.....AGAIN?
view healthyhome's profile
I'd like to know the technique. Was the artwork painted directly on the wall? Printed and then attached somehow?
I'm a graphic artist, and I'm thinking of doing a similar thing for my place, but thus far it's all in my head. Also here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29827359@N02/
view ebanfield's profile
I missed it the first time too, so I'm glad for the re-post.
view jooly's profile
Love it! Good choose of background color. I like the fact that they resisted doing straight lines.
view Tom White's profile
I have a friend who did a big drawing with magic markers, and three years later parts of it became all brownish. Thats the trouble with markers, they're not made to stand up like paint.
view Daniel Poitiers's profile
This again?
view suzy8track's profile
A word of warning: I wrote on my walls with sharpie as a teenager. Turns out you have to use many layers of oil paint to cover it. My parents were not happy.
Moral of the story: use acrylic paints or water-based markers.
view marlo's profile
Thanks for the repost. Great job Charlie.
marlo, your parents should have primed with B.I.N. That will cover it in a coat.
view quiltmaster's profile
This is a cool idea, but definitely over kill. Maybe just doing a wall or two would be enough.
view iGeekChic's profile
I didn't see it the first time, and of course I love it. I love it when people actually get out some kind of brush and paint their walls boldly and well.
view Curtis's profile
this is great, but only if you're an artist. in my hands, this wall treatment would look really really ugly.
view brookejoy's profile
this is refreshing...
custom wall treatment made by hand of owner...
instead of being bought and paid for like most...
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