Shipping Container Murals

Something different this weekend from the cartoonist behind the Push Button Heads.

Jun 07, 2026

The Project

My partner has been asking me for a while now to start planning for another mural on our shipping container cabin. If you remember, I’ve already completed one mural in my pictogram style called “The Lawn Mower.”

Photo gallery of process shots of the painting of The Lawn Mower Mural on the side of a shipping container cabin.

Photo of a 40 foot high cube shipping container, the surface to be decorated with a mural.

This time we’ll be repainting the back of the shipping container we’ve nicknamed “Kline” after the signature trademark of the Japanese freight company that previously owned our can. We’ve been calling our weekend retreat “Kline” for years now and so we’re confident the nickname will survive even if we paint over the word-mark at this point.

I’ve sketched and mocked up a few options, and I’d love for my subscribers to weigh in and vote for their favourite.

Option 1: “The Reader”

I like the exaggerated limbs and how I’ve balanced the composition within the wide frame of the container.

Illustration of someone reading a book while wearing a hat and sun glasses.

Mockup of The Reader illustration onto the surface of a 40 foot wide shipping container in the middle of a farm field.

Option 2: “Trip and Fall”

You might recognized this one from an animation I posted last year on my Instagram. This would be complicated to paint as a mural, but maybe worth the effort.

Illustration showing the frame by frame sequence of someone tripping and falling and catching their hat in the mid-air in while recovering from the fall.

Mockup of the Trip and Fall illustration mapped onto the surface of a 40 ft wide high cube shpping container in the middle of a farm field.

Option 3: “Field Day”

The subject matter of this mural would harmonize with the remote and rural location of our cabin, and the pictogram style would complement the existing “Lawn Mower” mural on the other side of the cabin.