<p>How did this Sharpie world start? With a single swipe of the marker.</p> <p>Kratzer started mid-wall, with the <em>Salon</em> by Picasso. Then he thought, well, taking a design out to the edge of the wall wouldn't be overwhelming.</p> <p>Then the rest of the basement flared off that first wall.</p> <p>Kratzer's basement suggests that the great cultural influences wandered out of college humanities class &mdash; here a Churchill for eloquence during harsh times, a Joan Crawford for cinematic vampiness, Holmes and Poirot for great literary characterization &mdash; and set up shop together in the carefully hand-drawn markings of an educated imagination come to life.</p> <p>Kratzer might be a lawyer by day, but in his off hours he is a man who has taken the artistic influences and heroes of his life and imagined them onto his walls, that he might keep company with them while he uses the pool table.</p> cool, art, home, made, drawing multimedia 0 2008-09-26T15:52:14-04:00 <p>Ten bucks worth of markers and a good first for figuring can net you an awesome interior decor. Hit the jump for the link to the whole shebang.</p> 2 2197 the-writing-on-the-wall 2008-09-26T15:52:20-04:00 true false true false false #<Image:0x2b87cd4b7b68> 2008-09-29T10:19:10-04:00 http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/532854.html 371 285