Texas side commissions latest downtown mural

A new mural in progress is shown Oct. 18, 2019, at West Fourth and Main streets in Texarkana, Texas. The city commissioned artist Jes Weiner to paint the mural, which uses a logo first put on a Texarkana Water Utilities water tower.
A new mural in progress is shown Oct. 18, 2019, at West Fourth and Main streets in Texarkana, Texas. The city commissioned artist Jes Weiner to paint the mural, which uses a logo first put on a Texarkana Water Utilities water tower.

TEXARKANA, Texas - A new downtown mural is in progress, commissioned by the city and using a logo first put on a water tower.

The city asked artist Jes Weiner to paint the mural on the brick wall of the abandoned parking garage off West Third and Main streets, facing the front of the Perot Theatre. It will depict the same multicolored "TXK" logo put on the Texarkana Water Utilities elevated tank at West Fourth and Congress streets a year ago.

Weiner is using "a lot of math" and a grid system to accurately scale up the logo, she said. Each of the letters is 20 feet high, and their tops are 40 feet off the ground. The mural will be about 38 feet wide.

A scissor lift Weiner was using proved unusable on the old pavement beneath the wall, so she switched to using a bucket lift truck to reach the mural, she said.

Nash, Texas, company Digital Effects Signs and Graphics designed the logo, and the city owns full rights to its use. At the time it was put on the water tower, the city planned to use it for branding and marketing purposes.

Weiner also painted one of the murals, "Shine Bright," in the Kress Gap at 116 W. Broad St.

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