Two days of painting left. Yippee Skippee! I’ll have this finished when Mr. Art Patron returns from his vacation, and he will be happy. I hope he’s happy – that’s the point of all this work. Lake Kaweah, between Three Rivers and Lemon Cove, California After a nice drive down the hill, I arrived at […]
Challenging Indoor Mural #8
This was Pillar Day. Just do it. Figure it out and paint the thing. Hmmmm, what is wrong with this road and these rocks? Why do they look like a pile of rocks rather than cobblestones? Let’s figure this out. . . procrastinating? Me? Why do you ask? This HAS to be figured out […]
Challenging Indoor Mural Update
Not exactly a mural update, but an invitation. Come back on Thursday, January 29 to see what happens to the mural! Meanwhile, contemplate Lake Kaweah as it looked on one of my morning commutes. Lake Kaweah, between Three Rivers and Lemon Cove, California See you on Thursday!
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 […]
Challenging Mural, #6
Two days off, couldn’t remember where I finished. Good thing I had a list. Gave me peace of mind as I commuted down the hill. I ignored the list and looked at the wall. Time to paint those all-important pillars. First, tape off the sky to protect it from pillar paint, which is about to […]
Challenging Mural #5
I knew this was rough but felt very unsure about how to handle it. Lying awake at night didn’t solve anything. The problem is that if I can’t see if, I can’t paint it. It has to be made up. It is easier to make up stuff when it is familiar stuff. Having never visited […]
Challenging Mural, #4
How about that for a title? Installment #4 is actually part 2 of day 2. Whatevs. I want to show you how the paint goes on, in terms of what order things get painted. Yeah, yeah, I’m stretching it out in a concession to people’s short attention spans. Don’t want to fall into the TLDR* […]
Challenging Mural, Day Two
Perhaps I should refer to each installation of this indoor mural story as “chapters”. However, I might lose count doing it this way. (If you read the first installment, you can see that I don’t count all that accurately.) Wow, the internet is so fast at Visalia Granite that I am able to actually listen […]
Challenging Mural, Day One, Part 2
What a dumb title. . . but you do get the idea that I am continuing to show and tell you about the progress of the indoor mural I am painting at Visalia Granite, yes? Well, oops. Measure twice, cut once. . . count twice, tape once. So obvious an error! I retaped and began […]
Challenging Mural, Day One
It was hard to sleep the night before I began because of excitement. I thought through all the beginning steps so that I wouldn’t stand in front of the blank wall and spin in circles. haul in my equipment and supplies lay out the tarps tape the edges draw the mural paint the sky This […]