After having the audacity to mess with someone else’s art, I returned to the endless mural at my church. (It would be a real blessing if someone else messed with this one for me.) This blank right side needed to be finished.
Weird color because the big stage spotlights are on.
I started by defining and filling in the different segments from farthest away to closer (called “planes”, which is a word you might recall from geometry.)
Boulders seemed like a good solution. It is better if the two “wings” aren’t symmetrical, which means that they don’t mimic one another. That wouldn’t look natural, as if it is natural to have a giant mural of a fake Sequoia meadow on the stage of a church. (I love Three Rivers, with all our original authentic uniqueness. Sometimes it seems as if we use our location as permission to be mavericks.)
I found a different setting on my camera to show the colors more true.
After 5 hours, I dropped off into Idiotland, where I began to get sloppy and stupid. It isn’t good to get sloppy in a place with carpet and painted areas that have no touch-up paint available.
Am I finished?
Maybe, maybe not.
It will probably take a month or two of Sundays before I decide.
Maybe I just won’t sit where I can see this, and then I won’t pick it apart. It looks fine from this angle.
So there.
I mean “Amen”.
P.S. The drummer gave me a wonderful compliment about the mural extensions. He said they looked so right, so perfectly continued from the rest of the mural that he didn’t notice that they were there.
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