Showing posts with label Ceiling Tile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ceiling Tile. Show all posts

Monday, August 18, 2025

Ceiling Tiles Remembered

Sixteen and then again fifteen years ago, I painted monsters on the ceiling tiles of a local taco chain. They would do contests for locals to submit the tiles, and then there would be a vote resulting in the winner receiving a gift card or some such thing. You would think I would remember, as I won both times I competed, but some details are lost to time. Recently, the second submission, which was a pair of tiles creating one image, made the rounds on Facebook, and I was reminded of them. I looked up the restaurant to realize it has been closed for a while, and it looks like something else has taken its place. This sadly means that my tiles are in a landfill or have been painted over. My money is that they were destroyed. Oh well, these things happen. To add to it, I can not locate the original images, only these cropped and modified versions I originally shared when they were created. My original posts are still on the blog as well if you would like to see what I had to say about them at the time. Here again are all the images of the ceiling tiles that are now lost to the ages.

Cieling hot sauce monster likes his tacos!

The ceiling tiles in the restaurant.

A detail of the paintwork on this one. It was a mix of acrylic paint and paint markers.

The second time I created tiles for the restaurant, it was a pair of tiles depicting an epic battle between Godzilla and the Tacoauras.

Close up of Godzilla...

...and the taco monsters.

A detail of Godzilla.

Some pair of process images. Again, it was a combination of acrylic paint and paint markers.

And finally, the pair of tiles on the ceiling of the restaurant. Hopefully, they are together in the landfill.

That's all for another exciting Monday on the blog! See you back here on Wednesday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability, head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

And the winner is...

You might remember my previous post about my newest submission to the local Tijuana Flats ceiling tile contest, well they finally tallied the votes and declared a winner. Apparently it is me! Free tacos for me for awhile... OM NOM NOM NOM NOM. They were eager to give me some more tiles in preparation for their next contest. Haven't taken them yet, but most likely will. Here is a photo of the tiles in place at the restaurant.

Godzilla vs. Tacosaurus
© 2010 Christopher Burdett

Don't forget! I have my art show opening this Friday! I will be hanging this afternoon! Wish me luck, haven't done this in a while. I hope to take photos as it happens and will try to share some with you on Friday. Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Friday, February 19, 2010

Tijuana Flats Ceiling Tiles

Back in July I took part in a ceiling tile painting contest for a newly opened Tijuana Flats Tex-Mex restaurant. They announced that they are doing a new painting contest and I jumped at the chance to have some more fun with real paint. You are limited to two tiles in the contest so I figured why not take both and do something big and fun. This is what I came up with...

Godzilla vs. Tacosaurus
© 2010 Christopher Burdett

Closer look at the Godzilla side. Never forget that web address!
© 2010 Christopher Burdett

Closer look at the Taco side.
© 2010 Christopher Burdett

If you are saying to yourself this is all just an excuse for me to paint Godzilla for once... well, you might be onto something. I meant to have this done a lot sooner but being sick last week really put a dent in my production schedule. The contest does not end until the middle of next month so it will be awhile before I know if I won any tacos. I must be patient! Here are some additional images of the tiles...

Close up of the big G.
© 2010 Christopher Burdett

After an hour or two of sketching out the drawing and laying down some base colors. What you can't see in this image is the hair dryer, because acrylic just does not dry fast enough.
© 2010 Christopher Burdett


After a couple more hours. Almost done now. At this point it really began to move quickly.
© 2010 Christopher Burdett


That is all for this week. I will be back next week with some new work that I think is safe to show off! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Getting ready for Comic Con

I mentioned on Monday that I am getting ready for the San Diego Comic Con, which will be upon us in just a couple of weeks. One of the things that I have been working on is a new business card and postcard leave behind. There is a secret item I am working on that I will share with you when it is all finished.

Now that I have committed to these I think back to the last business card and leave behind I carried around at Comic Con and a little piece inside me dies. Live and learn, right? There is much more recent work I wanted to use for these, but alas I can't due to NDAs. The good news is that many of my recent clients are allowing me to use unreleased work in my hard copy portfolio for self promotion at the Con, so I can't really complain.

New and improved double sided business card with Info-tastic-mega-overload power!

Postcard leave behind. I will of course realize all the things I should have done once I am talking to an art director at the con.

I will keep you posted as the other items progress. I hope they will turn out super neat.

For those of you not following me on Twitter or Facebook you may not have heard my update yesterday about the ceiling tile I painted for Tijuana Flats. I have been told it took second place in a popular vote... which I was never told would be a popular vote and thus did not allow me to vote for my own tile or get anyone else I know to vote for said tile. Oh well, I still won some free burritos and the tile is very well placed in the restaurant with my web address clearly visible.

Second place! (...is the first loser) ;)

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Monday, July 6, 2009

Endings and Beginnings

Last week's posting schedule was off so if you missed anything make sure you check out the ceiling tile, Ankheg wallpaper, and Oso de la Fez.

Last week marked some endings and beginnings. Some of you may know I finished a project I have been working on for the last 6 months. I have been talking about this project off and on for a while now, I call it "my other work" and have featured some of the graphics I have created for it. Well, 1145 graphics and copious revisions later, the project is done and will be going live for use today (just between you and me I would not be surprised if I get some more revisions any moment now).

As this project ends other begin. I have some card art and black and white book illustrations gearing up in the sketch phase. There is also a dragon I am planning on having finished for Friday that some of you might be working on as well *cough* ArtOrder *cough*. Lastly... there is Comic Con. I will be attending the San Diego Comic Con July 22 - 26 and I am way behind in getting ready. If you will be attending SDCC try to find me and say 'hi', I will be free roaming so it might be hard. There will be more details on that as we get closer.

Here are some graphics from the project I just finished, they dealt with exterior threats to child care homes and facilities:

Forest or wild fires can be a threat to you and the children in your care.

Bomb treats are never a joke. That clown still gives me nightmares.

I was just thrilled I finally had a use for that guy.

It is on screen for just seconds but I am strangely really proud of this one.

Thanks to H1 N1 this project got expanded and the size increased and I almost got pinched by the deadline that did not get extended.

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Friday, July 3, 2009

Tijuana Flats Ceiling Tile

Better later then never... a bucket load of Internet issues today. Anyway... Here is the ceiling tile I did for the new Tijuana Flats that has opened near me. Every time a new store opens they have a ceiling tile painting contest and there a three winners that get bragging rights and some gift cards for free food. I thought this would be something fun to do and a little bit of free advertising (notice my cleverly placed web address!) The sky is the limit on what you can do but they did offer several themes they would like to see: hot sauce, fire, heat, iguanas or super heroes. I decided on hot sauce and tentacle beast. They go well together. The winners were to be announced yesterday which is why I had not shown this yet (just in case), but apparently not everyone could handle the deadline so it has been pushed till next week. I will update you as thing develop. Enough of my rambling., here is my tile:

Before it went up. Why yes, that is real paint, painted with a real brush - so retro. I used spray paint, acrylic, and paint markers.

Here a bad photo of it in it's final spot in the ceiling of Tijuana Flats.

If you were curious, here is a close up of the tile.

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com