Day One on the Mural, continued

I loaded the most pertinent supplies onto the lift, remembered how to turn it on and drive it, got it into position and couldn’t figure out how to raise it up. I was so desperate that I actually referred to the useless manual. It should have had a simple sentence reading “Move the  yellow toggle switch to the left and use the same control that drives the machine to raise and lower it”. It didn’t say that. I called Keith and he talked me through. When I got as high as I needed to be, I began the sky. It took about 3 hours to cover it and here are the results:

It needs to be a lighter color and the mountains need to be raised. So, I got the new mountain level drawn on:

After that, the lift stopped lifting, so I moved to a lower section and began scribbling. Since painting is supposed to happen from back to front, this is out of order and will have to simply serve as a base coat.

 Next, I went home to mix some colors – new sky, 2 shades of mountain and dirt.