Mural, Day Forty

Today I backed the truck to the end and painted to the end! It isn’t finished, of course, but paint reached the end of the wall. Shoot. I had all kinds of ideas for the blog and I’m back to Uhhh, photo, look.    

Mural, Day Thirty-nine

Rain reprieve yesterday. I’m of two minds now: starting to slow down, reluctant to finish while at at the same time looking forward to not taking the car out of the garage all day and staying home to paint little bitty oil pictures! Uhhh, photo, look: 

Mural, Day Thirty-eight

As I paint in silence (relatively speaking) and solitude each day, ideas come to me for this blog. Sometimes 2-3 hours go by with no visitors; they usually appear in groups, right around the time I break for lunch (all 3 minutes of it) or while I am trying to put it all away around […]

Mural, Day Thirty-seven

Whooo-eee, it was a hot one today! Pleasant unless standing in the sun on the back of a truck in or on the asphalt next to a south facing wall. I gave up around 2 p.m. because the paint was drying too fast in the brushes. “Postcard” #6 is finished, leaving just the last one […]

Mural, Day Thirty-six

Great weather! Sounds like a cliche, but when one works outside, it is EVERYTHING. Had many visitors today, including my dear husband who set up that umbrella so that it can not blow over. It also can’t really be moved very easily, but at least for an hour or two it will be useful!  I […]

Mural, Day Thirty-five

Thank you, Dick and Dawn, for the coffee today! Just in case anyone tried to call me today, my cell phone has quit working. Too bad it isn’t a Honda, because I’d take it to Foreign Auto Works. Alas, it isn’t, so I will do without one until it either rains or I run out of […]

Mural, Day Thirty-three?

First, we interrupt our regular programming to bring you a shameless commercial for Foreign Auto Works in Visalia. If you drive a Honda, Toyota or Nissan, you NEED these guys. Really! Forget about wasting time and money at the dealer; go see Mark and Pete. I wouldn’t dream of driving a car that they don’t […]

Mural, Day Thirty-one

Just kidding! This is not the mural’s progress today. Whoever said it takes 30 days to form a habit hasn’t met me. I FORGOT to photograph the mural when I finished painting!  So, I’ll just tell you a bit about the day. The most memorable event was when a gust of wind blew the umbrella […]

Mural, Day Thirty!

Oooh, ooh, I think I might be 2/3 finished! My first guess at how long this would take was 60 days, and it may be that or even less. My hope is to have it look finished, and then have lots of time to dink around and improve and perfect and of course, hide a […]