Brian Clinebell

I just finished working on a huge mural for Paul that was inspired by the artist Shag.  The wall I worked on was 22ft long by 8 ft tall. It’s the biggest thing I have painted before by far. Take a look:

Inspired by Shag: Image by Paul Burlingame Photo

This retro poolside background was very clean and used as a backdrop for the models to look like they were at a pool party at night. Paul is a fan of Shag I thought this was great complement towards his style and gave more dimension to the photos.  I threw my own twist by putting in some modern century looking chairs and an almost monochromatic color in a way that I thought worked great with the pool-looking floor.

by Brian Clinebell

Have you ever seen those bathrooms that get tagged up? I’ve seen them a bunch of times in LA and New York.  I was inspired to create a backdrop with that kind of graffiti.  This was one of the first pieces I worked on for Paul last September.

Mari Ehlert posing in front of Brian's original 4' x 8' graffiti studio art work.

To add a little flair to the background I made some stencils of images that I have worked with before.  I married my background with a shot by Paul – and I think we ended up with some really great pictures taken against this background.

Note from Pb:

Brian’s graffiti art was the first of several of his pieces commissioned for use in my studio. Now that we’ve had several successful shoots with it I think we should transform this into a framed piece of wall art like we’d originally planned.

Brian also introduced me to Mari Ehlert at the Ken Cafe. She did a great job modeling a 60’s dress suit I’d found in New York’s garment district.

Perhaps inspired by Brian’s ideas, on my next trip to the big city I took the following photo of Bianca in Williamsburg posing in front of some rather elaborate and colorful outer space robot public graffiti.

Bianca wearing a raincoat by New York designer Levi Okunov in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Brian Clinebell

Right now I am working on series of photos by Paul called “The Kitch Series” where I am colorizing the setting.

This is one of my favorites:

Pop-Art Kitchen: Image by Paul Burlingame Photo

I’m colorizing the series Paul shot in a kitchen setting that was all white.  We chose a pastel style color palette with the goal of creating a pop-art style kitchen setting that gives the images more dimension and life to them.  My favorite ones are the ones with Marissa eating the cherries.