Private Residence, Colorado Springs, CO
PENGUIN PARTY
commercial Project • 2025
PENGUIN PARTY
A charming residential mural featuring emperor penguins against cool blue tones with unexpected pink geometric shapes. The playful contrast between the penguins' natural dignity and the contemporary graphic elements creates something warm, whimsical, and totally unique to the space.
Gallery
Artist's Note
“Emperor penguins are inherently dignified — they waddle, but they do it with incredible purpose. Adding the geometric pink shapes was about disrupting that formality, making the piece fun without undermining the birds' character. The homeowner wanted something their kids would love but that wouldn't feel juvenile.”
— Rachel Dinda
Inspiration
The resilience of emperor penguins — surviving Antarctic winters to raise their young — paired with playful geometric abstraction. Nature and geometry are both about patterns, just at different scales.
The Process
The penguins were rendered with careful attention to their actual proportions and coloring, keeping them grounded in realism. The geometric shapes were then overlaid as a separate visual layer, creating depth and a sense that the penguins exist between two worlds — the natural and the abstract.
Community Impact
The family's kids have named each penguin and tell visitors their backstories. It's become one of those pieces that gets more entertaining over time as people notice new details in the geometric patterns.
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