Yes, he got permission

That gentleman out painting on the Bloomingdale's windows looks familiar for a reason: It's Menlo Park artist Mitchell Johnson, armed with house paint, creating a mural on the windows facing El Camino. Regular Weekly readers (you never miss a week, do you, dear heart?) will recognize him from our May 18 cover profile.

Mitchell expects to be out there today and tomorrow from 11 to 5, painting his tribute to the abstract Color Field visual movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s. Several of his abstract paintings are also on exhibit inside the store -- you can see them and the mural through the end of September.

Pictured: "Flagpole" by Mitchell Johnson.