Challenging Indoor Mural, #7

This is entry #7, but documents Day #5 of painting.

I had 2 days away – one to teach drawing lessons, a weekly occurrence, and the other to follow an AT&T technician around while he sorted out numerous internet problems. (Terrible company, fantastic service technicians.) This meant I need a little thinking time to plan my next steps after getting reacquainted with the project.

Step One: document how it looks at the beginning of the day:

Hmm, I wonder if I can finish everything south of the pillar today. Feels ambitious, but if one sets a high goal, one might reach it.  (“One” would be me.)

 

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Alrighty, then, let’s hit the wall.

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First stop to observe. Getting that fiddly background stuff in isn’t too bad. It is fun. I love architectural details, whether in oil paint, mural paint, and most especially in pencil (HEY! SPEAKING OF PENCIL, THE CABINS OF WILSONIA IS NOW ON AMAZON!)

I can do better. As I study the mural from a little ways back, I decide the pillar that will be painted on the metal beam (beam? pillar? post?) will look too wide from Mr. Art Patron’s chair. So, I taped off where it should go, and stretched the buildings and sky to fill the added inch or two. Since I premixed a jar of sky color, this wasn’t difficult to pull together.

Then, I blocked in the rest of this lower right corner with large patches of color so I would know where to paint which textures.

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Whoa. Getting too dark to see. I moved all the jars of paint and other stuff out of the way (but left the tarp – wait until we see it with the floor, which is an excellent color with the mural.)

Nice. Now I want to see it through the conference room window.

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What a cool view!

I have 3 painting days before Mr. Art Patron returns from his vacation. This challenging indoor mural most likely will not be finished, but it will be close! Nothing like a deadline to keep pushing me ahead. Mr. Art Patron didn’t really expect it to be finished – just expressed the desire. Who can blame him? He has a beautiful office and a great business, and a paint spattered middle-aged woman on a ladder listening to Dave Ramsey or Michael Hyatt on her paint spattered laptop probably isn’t a real draw for business.

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