The end of last week turned out to be quite the whirlwind. Thursday started with this mural. , It was for two little girls, sharing a room. The oldest loves dinosaurs (read: Land Before Time) and the youngest loves kitties. It should’ve been really simple. Dinosaurs. Kitties. How difficult could that be? And I […]
Anatomy of a Mural – Completed Project
Finished! Finis! Done! I finished this mural yesterday afternoon. How. Lay. Loo. Yah. It’s not that it was a tough project, or a particularly long one. Just over 5 days and I had breaks in between each working day. So it was a little easier on my body. The clients were wonderful. And are very […]
Anatomy of a Mural – How to Paint a Bridge
Or – maybe how not to paint a bridge. It happens. I won’t say it happens every time I paint a mural, but it does happen. Call it an ‘uh-oh’. Or maybe ‘oops’. Even, WTH do I do now? Today it happened. With the bridge. Day 3 of this mural started out fairly easy and […]
Anatomy of a Mural – Day Two
Are you enjoying this little behind-the-scenes look at painting a mural step-by-step? (aka – my weekend project.) (aka – my-body-hurts-all-over-this morning-and-I-can-barely-move-project.) In case you were wondering, how do you start to paint a mural – we started with this simple sketch. Then I added some color to the sample mural rendering. I started painting the […]
Anatomy of a Mural – Painting Day 1
It is now 9:00 Saturday night. At 9 a.m. this morning I started painting this mural. Those two facts could be the sign of a highly dedicated businesswoman. Or maybe the sign of someone who needs to get a life. I’m just sayin’ . . . In case you missed my post with the mural […]
Anatomy of a Mural
I’d love to say we’re all unpacked and settled after the move. But I can’t. There’s so much to do around this place, it makes my head spin. And while I’d love to wile away the hours reminiscing about more of my business horrors, work calls. Nothing like a new mural project to get my […]
Tree Murals
Who doesn’t love trees? Especially this time of year, with all the changing colors of autumn. The trees here in Placerville range in color from bright yellow-gold to rich burgundy red. They’re so beautiful I was almost moved to write a poem. Almost. Something about how I had never noticed the beauty of trees as […]
Shared Brother/Sister Room Murals
I had the wonderful privilege of painting murals in a little boy’s and soon-to-be-born-baby girl’s room yesterday. It’s hard enough to decorate a room for a boy and a girl, but coming up with mural ideas? That would’ve been quite a challenge for me, but luckily Mommy already had ideas of what she wanted. When […]