Monday, November 7, 2011
Mural!
Last weekend I started on a mural overlooking our pool, based on an illustration from BILLY TWITTERS AND HIS BLUE WHALE PROBLEM. An illustration that is available as a t-shirt design in the Zazzle sidebar on this blog. (cough)
Here's the wall "before." The pool didn't actually have to be green to get this process started, but I found the brackish smell and the heady vapors of a hundred dollars worth of algaecide put me in the seafaring mood.
My wife, seen here, had an idea that may seem like old hat to regular mural-painters, but which I found ingenious: tape the design up in sixty or so pieces, then take one piece down at a time and reproduce it in paint underneath. That way I can look at the enlarged design on paper in my hand, and the surrounding paper pieces will guide my lines and ensure everything connects. Like those grid-drawings everyone did when they were younger.
This is as far as I got in one afternoon. Should take another to finish up–I'll post the whole wall when it's done.
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9 comments:
Holy Cow! That is so fantastic and you haven't even finished it yet... *wow*
You did all that in one afternoon? WOW! It looks amazing!
That's rocking. I'll have to remember your technique for transferring the drawing to the wall.
Nice work.
Hey, I have that shirt!
That's a great idea beautifully executed. Are you just using regular exterior latex, or is it special mural paint?
That squid is quite handsome! It's gonna look great.
Awesome, Rex! That's a lot to get done in one afternoon. And aren't you lucky to have a wife that is smart and beautiful?!
This is awesome! I love that this is something that you and you're wife can share the creation of. That is very inspiring
Fantastic Work. Can't Wait To See More.
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