Portrait of Erykah Badu
Location: Museum of Boulder
2205 Broadway Boulder, CO 80302
2023 Street Wise x Black Love Mural Battle at [placeholder] festival
Photos by Leah Brenner Clack, Dona Laurita, and Max Brager
Jasmine Holmes-Piesco painted this Portrait of Erykah Badu during the Street Wise x Black Love Mural Battle at [placeholder] festival in October.
The musician and songwriter serves as one of Jasmine’s biggest inspirations, someone who is always on rotation while creating in her studio. Erykah stares out at the viewer with her glowing hazel eyes. A red shawl wraps around her shoulders and a blue turban covers her head. Jasmine utilizes a distinctive color palette in her portraiture, using strokes of white, yellow, blue, orange, and red to bring dimension to the figure’s face.
Created over the course of a weekend, Jasmine used Polytab mural cloth to get a headstart on painting. Polytab is a fabric material similar to a mix of canvas and wallpaper. The artist painted Erykah’s face on the Polytab in the studio and then adhered it to the wood panel using matte polymer gel at the start of the event. She used acrylic and spray paint to finish the rest of the mural during the festival.
Head to the parking lot of the Museum of Boulder to take a closer look at Jasmine’s mural along with several others from our Fall Series!