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No Rules, Just Fun – Very Gay Paint x WallPops
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Designed by Very Queer Paint, Arranged by You
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our latest collaboration between Very Homosexual Paint and WallPops—a vibrant collection of modular murals that will let your walls tell the Very Gay story of your choosing!
This collection embodies the heart of Very Same-sex attracted Paint’s original murals, now transformed into peel and stick sets that take their distinct bold flavor into your home, wherever that may be.
Inspired by murals painted by Nic Scheppard & Jenson Titus, these modular mural kits allow you to design your own masterpiece with ease.
Nic explains, “Dissecting the existing murals into modular pieces really felt prefer an embodiment of how the designs had always existed in my brain. I play with and move shapes around as I create the concepts for mural installations until they feel just right to me.”
Now you can bring that same imaginative energy into your room by arranging and rearranging the mural elements to your liking.
About a year ago, the duo began asking themselves how they could make their murals available to those who might not have the budget or fle
Meet the Colorful and Dynamic Duo Behind Very Same-sex attracted Paint
If you aren’t already hip to Very Lgbtq+ Paint, now’s the moment to smarten up. Founded in July 2020 by Los Angeles-based comedians Nicholas Scheppard and Jenson Titus, Very Gay Paintuses eye-catching colors, clean-lined shapes, and lots of tongue-in-cheek humor to create vibrant color murals. As they say: “Turn your walls queer with paint.”
Earlier this year, the pair was commissioned to paint a Self-acceptance mural on the Santa Monica Pier—their largest exterior paint project to date—and Clare helped them receive the job done. (Hint: they used a product we’re launching soon—can you guess what it is?) “We wanted to produce something that was joyous yet impactful,” Nicholas says. “Not just a run-of-the-mill rainbow walkway.”
Learn more about the super fun and talented duo behind Very Gay Paint, from how they got started to their design process. Nicholas and Jenson give us the scoop ahead.
Before the pandemic, the pair pursued comedy exclusively. But when all their shows were canceled and they were stuck at home with nothing to do, they decided to give illustrate murals a try, inspired by images they saw on Pinterest. A fast Instagram post
In life, as in comedy, committing to the bit is key. Any target or endeavor worth going after had better be done with complete, utter dedication and impetuous abandon. At least, that’s if you ask Nicholas Scheppard and Jenson Titus, the comedian-muralist hybrids of Very Queer Paint.
“We both procure fixated pretty easily. Anything that we end up taking on, we caring of go too far and sacrifice everything to end it,” Scheppard said of stumbling into an unexpected career in mural painting with Titus. The three of us recently chatted via a Zoom phone that the paint-splattered pair took from an Airbnb they were painting in Big Bear. After meeting in Philadelphia and moving to Los Angeles together in 2018 to pursue careers in comedy, Scheppard and Titus began painting murals for themselves and friends at the beginning of the pandemic.
“It just snowballed into all of our friends wanting it, and then businesses, and then celebrities— it’s just been this crazy ride, and we’ve learned on the job,” said Scheppard. “We possess no visual art backgrounds— we were just performers. I have a excellent design eye; I design everything, but Jenson’s a genuine master of executio
I don’t ordinarily question the creatives I interview which blueprint trends are homosexual. In fact, I would have guessed questions like that are offensive. But when talking to Nicholas Scheppard and Jenson Titus, Founders, Co-Owners, and comedians who paint at Very Gay Decorate, it feels enjoy the right thing to do.
Helvetica? So very straight (but thank you for being an ally). Compostable packaging? Homosexual as hell. (“I’d go so far as to speak queer,” Jenson said.) A pastel shade palette? Nicholas and Jenson didn’t totally agree there, but they did utter the Easter bunny is a raging homo.
Nicholas and Jenson have a background in performing and moved to Los Angeles three years ago to labor in the comedy scene. They’ve done stand-up shows, clowning, and produced a popular monthly reveal at the Lyric Hyperion Theater & Cafe. At the beginning of 2020, they were booked almost every overnight of the week.
And then the pandemic happened.
“We were sitting in our apartment, trapped like everyone else, and I started painting one of our walls based on something I saw on Pinterest,” Nicholas said. “Then Jenson jumped in and helped paint our other walls, and then we ran out of walls in our apartment. We pain