McHenry’s newest downtown mural unveiled

Lucy Tonyan has painted murals before – projects where property owners hired the artist to create large-scale art in homes and businesses.Her latest mural is now on the side of McHenry’s D.C. Cobb building at 1204 N. Green St., overlooking Boone Creek and the McHenry Riverwalk. Instead of having to go up on a lift or scaffolding to hand-paint the mural over the course of days or weeks, the work started going up Monday morning and was finished by midafternoon.The crew at Invictus Vinyl took a painting Tonyan created for the wall and converted it into a 22-foot-wide-by-14-foot-tall vinyl transfer. The artist – who owns The Studio Art School in McHenry – also signed her work.“It really captured the painting. You can see the brushwork and everything,” Tonyan said as the vinyl panels were put in place.The mural should be good for the next 7 to 10 years, said Michael Suchowski of Invictus.He originally thought the application process would take a day or two.“We are flying through it,” Suchow