The artist makes slow, deliberate strokes after loading a brush with just enough paint to lay down a clean line without a drip. They use no stencil, relying on decades of muscle memory from performing the same motions throughout the city.
Most people walk past the signs and murals adorning some of L.A.'s most esteemed taco shops and don’t think twice about who made them. But behind the colors and letters are respected artists like Mikołaj Wyszynski.
This includes the art inside Sonoratown, one of L.A.’s best taquerías. Its now iconic mural (a collage of imagery tracing the wheat that makes the tortillas here so distinct, sourced from the Rio Grande basin near San Luis Río Colorado), along with its menus, signage, and designs across all three locations, was created by Wyszynski, under the direction of owners Jennifer “Jen” Feltham and Teodoro "Teo" Diaz-Rodriguez, Jr.