His paintings are huge, historical murals that have or are going up on the blank exterior walls of several of Breckenridge's downtown buildings. Three murals are complete, one is in progress and one more is planned. True, the first two murals were done in color. The second is brown-toned, or sepia. But that has all changed with the success of the third mural, a 35 by 16-foot 1920s street scene that is all black and white.
People love the black and white mural.
They bring their children to look and they photograph the black and white painting with color film. Ines loves the black and white too, so the fourth and the fifth mural will also be black and white. If this starts a trend, I'll do these the rest of my life. The reason the murals are black and white is that they are intended to represent the black and white historical work of talented photographer Basil Clemons. Clemons came to Breckenridge shortly after the oil boom of 1920, the year that Breckenridge's population exploded from 1,500 to 30,000.