That mural I showed you yesterday served 2 purposes: 1. To dress up the exterior of my studio and 2. To keep me in practice because I felt slightly inadequate to begin the next mural at the Three Rivers History Museum. This is often how I feel when about to begin a mural. I don’t […]
Three Rivers Museum Mural #2, part 2
The new mural in the Mineral King Room of the Three Rivers History Museum took about 5 hours to paint. It is taking 2 days to tell you about it. I was zipping right along, just slamming this Mineral King mural of Sawtooth out of my brushes like nobody’s business. (Now that’s a quaint phrase […]
Three Rivers Museum Mural #2
Do you remember during the last post about the Three Rivers History Museum Mineral King mural that I advised you to stay tuned? This week we resume our ongoing saga of Mineral King murals. A man built a cabin facade (sorry, I don’t know how to make the little comma in the air above the […]
New Mural in Three Rivers, Chapter 4
The mural at the Three Rivers History Museum is now finished! (Yes, the light for photographing the mural is different in the morning than in the afternoon. You are observant about details like that!) The lower background, the foreground and the trees all needed refining. Louise also noticed that someone climbing the tower would […]
New Mural in Three Rivers, Chapter 3
The Mineral King mural in Three Rivers is in this building. This is how the mural looked when I arrived on Day #2. Tower is in place, background sort of finished, trees located. In the last post I said it is quiet in the museum. Ahem. Not on Day #2! A cabin facade is getting […]
New Mural In Three Rivers, Chapter Two
I may have estimated my time to be longer than anticipated for the new mural at the Three Rivers Museum.. Perhaps the customer will think I am over charging. Guess I’d better moan on and on about how difficult this is. All that moaning about difficulty was fake. This might be the easiest location I have […]
New Mural in Three Rivers
Yesterday I began a new mural in the Three Rivers Museum’s new Mineral King Room. The internet was on vacation, so you get to see the beginnings today. This is the only photo I have of the Three Rivers Museum. Paul Bunyon doesn’t belong here, except that Carroll Barnes of Three Rivers carved him from […]
Mural #2, Day Four and a Half
This was a day of tiny little branches, painted while sitting, kneeling and standing on the scaffolding. The most difficult part was not falling into the branching pattern of a Valley Oak. (Did you think I was going to say “not falling off the scaffolding”?) I had to draw these branches with my brush, which […]
Mineral King Mural Re-do
The book The Cabins of Wilsonia may be in route to Three Rivers. Then again, it may not. Trust has been broken, so I am hearing the messages from the printer and the binder in the same sort of sound as the adult voices on Charlie Brown. Remember those? Meanwhile, I am occupied with various tasks, all […]
Sequoia Mural Madness
Help. I’m infected with mad mural disease. Can’t stop painting them! Remember this, the largest mural on the right? Did you know it is actually doors that open? They’ve been awaiting a mural for several years now. The photo was chosen, but it never seemed urgent. Now that Studio Tour Ten is almost here, the […]