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Faded (poppy) Love, #2

We have had weird unusually cool weather here in Three Rivers, and I took the opportunity to continue working on the faded poppy mural.

You can see the lower section needs refreshing.
I started with green among the lower poppies. You can see that the middle ground of poppies is pinkish.
The lupine haven’t faded, so I am working around them. I did add some white tips to the blossoms on the far left in this photo.

I keep backing up to see if it looks as messy far away as it does from up close. The way a mural can look so terrible up close and so tight and photographic from a distance never ceases to amaze me. Feels magical.
Now I have added green to the lower right AND greens to the next layers of hills, fading as they move back. (If you are interested in ArtSpeak, this is called “aerial perspective”.
I worked more on the poppies, all the while lamenting how much was left to be done and getting COLD in May!! The pinkish colored ones haven’t been retouched yet.
There are some poppies remaining, along with the dreaded door. A friend (a very important person) really likes the tree, so I will retouch it on the left side and probably tackle the dreaded door, as long as the weather cooperates.

A list of what remains to be done, depending on the weather and my availability:

  1. The dreaded door
  2. The tree
  3. Pinkish poppies, both close and far
  4. Adding more popcorn flowers (or painting out the ones I just added)
  5. More grasses to overlap the poppies
  6. The lowest horizontal edge, which is currently covered in dirt and splatters from the rain.
  7. Brightening the lupine, just because I love those colors and want more, more, more

I think that the distant Alta Peak and Moro Rock, along with the rocks on the hillsides can be left. Their fading makes them look farther away than they did when I first painted the mural, which is the way it is supposed to look.

This is KitCarson, who always goes first, like his mama, Scout.

4 Comments

  1. Love the refreshed poppy mural! The faded background mountains look great, but I lobby for the tree to get a makeover. Looking forward to the final product. 🙂

    • Thanks, Melinda! I will probably procrastinate on doing the door for a year or two.

  2. You can really see the improvement between the “before” and “after” sections! I don’t recall ever seeing this mural, but then again, my trips through Three Rivers are usually dash-throughs on my way to or from Mineral King.

    Oh, hi, KIT, you cutie, you!

    • Sharon, to see this mural, you would have to go into the parking lot of the Baptist church and drive to the far end. Then you’d have to peer around the BBQ and climb over some broken and cracked cement to get a decent view. This was definitely a chicken way to begin my life of public muralizing.

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