An illustrated journal of life in the Puget Sound region by Times artist Gabriel Campanario.
November 26, 2012 at 5:56 PM
Goodbye Galaxy Gold, hello Forest Green
It wasn’t meant to be. The Space Needle will not don its retro Galaxy Gold color for its next paint job, as I wished.
Workers have been painting the top of the Needle with its new green color for a few days now. This afternoon, I could only see a patch of the bright orange left, so I rushed to do a sketch from the parking lot roof of a building in South Lake Union. (Note: I walked there, don’t go thinking I drive that Mercedes on the sketch.)
Seattle graphic designer Nicole Commins won the art contest organized by the Needle to find a replacement for Galaxy Gold. The new paint job consists of evergreens radiating towards the Needle’s center spire. It will stay for six months, and you can see it here.
Comments | More in Skylines | Topics: South Lake Union, Space Needle
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Gabriel Campanario has been living and drawing in Seattle since '06. He's a Seattle Times artist, founder of Urban Sketchers nonprofit, Spaniard, husband and father. You can follow him on Twitter and Facebook. 
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