It began with more than 3,000 square feet of exposed red brick on the backside of a vacant commercial building off Market Street. Slabs jutted out from fused concrete at incongruent angles, no single smooth patch on the beast’s scales.
Gus Rey needed approximately 35 spray-paint cans of a particular shade of Bronco baby-blue, many more gallon-sized cans of paint than could squeeze into his car, and a scissor lift that swung him 25 feet in the sky.
He also needed a consistent handle on his sanity to successfully pull off his mural of Pat Surtain II.