In the middle of the Great Recession, in 2008, my husband, Dmitry Pankov, and I started a little painted In April that year, we birthed Overall Murals, a hand painted outdoor advertising company. At this point, a recap includes the Australian fires, Kobe Bryant’s sad departure, to of course, coronavirus It was striking on the screen and as a print. We’ve never painted this wall because it’s too close to the park for advertising.

That foundation hasn’t vanished, it’s just wearing a newer coat of paint. B-80 , up near Banker Street and N 15th , is the northern entry point. It anchors the block, even halfway through the painting. There’s also a shift happening in how brands use hand painted walls. Installations that extend slightly beyond the painted surface.

I should know; I work in the hand painted outdoor advertising industry. We must step back to its roots to understand why hand painting matters. The craft of sign painting stretches back to ancient civilizations. It carries a level of prestige that digital and print simply cannot match. A hand painted ad isn't mass-produced. It's crafted.

At first glance, it might seem like a contradiction—a graffiti artist working alongside a hand-painted For a lot of us,   graffiti was the entry point to art itself,   the spark that ignited our creative creative freedom to every project, merging street art’s audacity with the precision of traditional hand-painted That’s when it hit us: why not have Revolt himself paint it on the outside of our new headquarters? 

We don’t just play the field, we paint it. just beyond them, in the connectors between neighborhoods, along the streets that lead into gathering points competing for attention and where movement replaces routine, that kind of presence is what allows hand painted

Since then, Ariana has been using her talent to create incredible hand painted murals nationwide. Ariana Villar joined the OM team a little over a year ago as an apprentice. But nothing compares to the feeling of holding a brush and creating art with paint—that's my passion. advance my skills because I get to work with other muralists and learn new styles and approaches to mural painting What advice do you have for women looking to get into the hand painted advertising industry?

was posed by one of my favorite ad campaigns , created by the artist We’re Not Really Strangers and painted After graduation, I stayed for a couple more years, exploring every neighborhood—even Bayview-Hunters Point Today, as a New Yorker, I make a point to always land at SFO when visiting my original "home." In February this year, we painted a mural in Union Square for the Lunar New Year, attracting thousands

Before working at Overall Murals, I would gawk in awe at the large painted wall outside of my old office I vividly recall spending my lunch breaks observing the artists as they pulled up in their paint-stained It was at that moment, I was hooked, curious as to what would be painted next. In my first few months, I found myself excitedly pointing out our mural locations to anyone who would Our paint shop is always buzzing with all the energy it takes to bring our murals to life.

Screen printed tank tops by Silky's, using signature fluorescent orange color ONLY achievable with inks using similar paint properties. The concept in the brief was "Paint Not War," which aligned with my values as a pacifist and visual artist Whether enjoying a weekend at the park or rigging yourself up a 10-story building to hand paint a mural In other words, we want to kill the pixel and prove the power of paint.

Where collaboration and craft meet the human touch What do painting a mural and a New Yorker’s favorite The work unfolds in real time — each brushstroke, each layer of paint, each hand contributing to the Painting is a medium everyone knows about, but what we’re painting and why are what strike the curiosity chord each and every time we paint a mural. Through our hand painted process—translating artwork to scale, hand-mixing color, and painting live in

. — December 2, 2025 — Overall Murals, the largest independently owned and operated hand painted outdoor award-winning campaigns for innovation and creative craftsmanship, Overall Murals continues to advance paint and Special FX teams—advancing storytelling grounded in craftsmanship and the artistry of the hand painted “Overall Murals connects brand purpose with artistry in its purest form—paint, people, and stories that And no other platform delivers such a dose of dimension as the beauty of something hand painted.” 

Entertainment From a tiny apartment on Stagg St. to taking over the whole damn block… it’s been 15 years of paint We started Overall Murals in 2010 with nothing but our hands, buckets of paint, and what felt like impossible Along the way, we built an incredible team, expanded to a West Coast base in Venice, CA , and kept hand painting Paint on hands, ideas bouncing in real time, building things together . And the neighborhood showed up right back to laugh, dance, paint, play, and connect in real time.