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Good.

I know that champagne.

Do you want some?

So.

Why are these people celebrating?

Why is this woman smiling?

Because they attended the dedication ceremony for the city's newest mural.

I'm ecstatic.

I think it's like DaVinci came back.

Took us about a year to get it OK'd through Italian Village.

Sandy Wood, who we're dedicating the mural to, has probably been at the forefront of bringing this area back to life.

I'm here to celebrate the Mona Lisa.

I think it's gorgeous.

I think she's gorgeous, I think looks great.

Took the whole neighborhood a long time to decide to put it on.

And we struggled with whether she should be standing up or looking down or you know, all those issues.

But I'm delighted with the way it turned out.

Sandy come on up here.

We're dedicating this mural to Sandy Wood.

It's probably our greatest support.

I think it's wonderful to first tell me, see pictures like that.

I do like it.

It looks good to me.

I wouldn't want too much of this sort of thing all over the city, but I think here and there it's nice.

Came several different times and watched all the different stages in process and it was really exciting.

I love to come down the alley and just kind of it's there, just perfect.

Located on the back wall of the Reality Theater at 736 North Pearl Street is the third mural commissioned by the Citizens for a Better Skyline.

The project was funded by the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council and private donations.

We've got a report that we're on.

Artist Brian Clemens worked two months to complete the mural.

It was a very interesting project, and very challenging.

This mural was a little more difficult than things I had done on a smaller scale.

You had to move the scaffolding when you got to another place.

You could only reach so far.

And that added a lot of frustration to it.

I used an MOP on the mural.

It lasts a long time outside and it's good color wise to mix as well.

The most famous thing about Mona is wherever you stand, she's looking at you.

And somehow he's managed to get that same aspect of the painting to come alive in big scale.

The eyes actually were.

Probably the easier part of the painting to do because you were working in a smaller area, you could actually reach what you were trying to render.

The people in the neighborhood seemed to like the mural quite a bit.

I think they had fun watching it being done.

Maybe they'd just like somebody to be out there always painting and changing that thing.

They're a lot of fun and I hope that the Citizens for a Better Skyline can put them in a lot of places.

The quality of the work that they're commissioning is really excellent, I think.

And I hope we can have a lot more of them.

We'd like to see maybe the American Gothic by Grant Wood, or even Michael Angelo's David, or Warhol's Marilyn, or a hopper like Nighthawks.

Those are some that we're really looking for a building where those would fit and the context would permit it.