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Mooney Museum Mural, Day 2

The mural looked like this in the morning. If you ran past it, it looked finished, but it needed detail.

Those middle hills were a bit confounding, so I just hunkered down in the mud to plant an orange grove. Oh-oh, this is going to be S L O W. Some friends stopped by, and I decided to be like Tom Sawyer. If someone had let me paint on a public wall in a park when I was 8, I would have been paralyzed with doubt, but maybe have just gone for it anyway. I told Justin that it didn’t matter what he did, just make some marks to see what it felt like, and I’d paint over anything that turned out weird.

County Parks Director Neil suggested wildflowers, which OF COURSE I should have thought of myself, and OF COURSE I immediately added in.There are poppies, fiddleneck, and mustard. You might have to see them in person to fully appreciate them.

Next, I will finish the details above the grove – a barn, some non-grove-like trees, a couple of wind machines. Then, I’ll move to the panel on the far right.

Stay tuned!

4 Comments

  1. You are such an expert at these! Pretty soon you’ll be introduced as, “Jana Botkin–you know, the Mural Lady!”

    I love it that you let a painter wannabe get his feet (brush?) wet and try adding a dab or two.

    What? No lupine?

    Looking great!

    • Sharon, I am an “expert” painting similar scenes over and over, but sometimes even these stretch me.

  2. I think it’s a great addition to Mooneys Grove – that place needed color!

    Well done!

    • Thank you, Anne! That museum was very drab on the outside, but it is certainly full of interesting items and displays. (Sometimes I take a break and pull weeds too, an attempt to dress it up a bit.)

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