MARTA, THANK YOU FOR A WONDERFUL LUNCH! THE SANDWICH WAS PERFECT, MUY FABULOSO!! Today I had beautiful wonderful perfect new brushes to use! Now Cabin Group Two is completed, and tomorrow I will move the truck forward and paint Farewell Gap! (Lord willing and the creek, etc.) Wow, lots of exclamation marks going on – must […]
Mural, Day Twenty-two
Today my yarn shop called about some yarn I wanted – having no paper or pencil, I wrote the amount on the wall! Just doing what I can to keep the economy ticking along.Here is the day’s progress – detail in the a.m. and broader stuff in the afternoon. Betsy brought an umbrella, and as […]
Mural, Day Twenty-one
Today it became apparent that the detail work has to happen in the a.m. The broader base-coating work is for the afternoon when the wall is too hot for my brushes to behave. This was a frustrating learning experience, but forward motion happened anyway. I moved the truck forward another 4 feet, and now I […]
Mural, Day Twenty
Looks sort of icky in the early layers, but you have confidence in my abilities, right? Say goodbye to Banjo Guy – he will be gone tomorrow.
Mural, Day Eighteen
See the vertical seam on the left? That marks 1/4 of the mural. There is solid paint on the first 1/4 of the mural now. Not all the details are completed, but visual forward motion is taking place. The truck is a FANTASTIC platform for painting! Today PBS interviewed some Exeter dignitaries and me, and […]
Mural, Day Seventeen
When I got to the mural this a.m. there was a beautiful sight to behold awaiting me! Now I can paint without bars in my face or blocking my arms or casting shadows across my work. This is WONDERFUL! (Huge thank you to Keith!) Another wonderful thing: an angel named Susan brought me some of those […]
Mural, Day Sixteen
See how far away and small my completed work appears from the sidewalk end? Lest you despair, there is a bit of camera distortion!Today I painted from Sawtooth to Mineral Peak and then put the base coat on the trees below the cabin “snapshot”. Note the changed roof on the center cabin, the completed chimney […]
Mural, Day Fifteen
From this angle and perspective, it might appear that I am quite far down the wall. That fits under the category of Appearances Are Deceiving.Here you can see the subtle differences in sepia colors. You can also see how much happened today! “Snapshot” #4 is almost finished! The weird part is that the road looks […]
Mural, Day Fourteen
It looked like showers were likely today, but I bravely commuted down the hill prepared to paint. It was a beautiful day with intermittent boiling brilliant sunshine and overcast chilly breezes. The sunshine let me really see the details in my photos; the clouds made it possible to see the paint on the wall – […]
Exeter’s Mural Project
In 1996 the small town of Exeter, California embarked on a journey to create an outdoor art gallery. At that time the town was slowly dying commercially. There were always parking spaces available in front of business on the main street, there were many empty spaces available for rent, there were very few shops and […]