Turtle pony bead pattern skin#

I finished painting this section when I realized the boy I had borrow from his donkey to put on this Llama was lit from the wrong side so I when back in and redid his face making up the correct lighting (I hope).

I let the viewers eyes bring the piece together. It is important to realize that the viewer will be at something of a distance and the work needs to pull together at that distance. He became more comfortable as we went a long.

He got lost at this scale but it’s just paint and I fixed it later. Jimbo flashed in the colors on the bus and lettered it. I had a time developing a singing face, I could not find a reference in that position. The soccer player reference was a girl, not in soccer attire or singing. Here is Italy, South America and France on the wall. I found myself doing it a number of times during this mural painting. I didn’t know I could do that until I tried. The girl had about four or five reference photos and is my composite of them. The musician resource was an thin elderly gentleman that I gave a boy’s head and hands. Jimbo painted most of the buildings with a few touch ups from me. Our hope is they will come to see each other as brothers and sisters. I also realize they find themselves at odds with each other. I see those two countries as an area with many things in common. It was difficult to chose what to include and what to leave out. The India/Pakistan area has such a rich and diverse culture as do many of the areas in this mural. Scaffolding is twenty foot long with a one foot wide platform and a sixteen inch stand off, it puts you really close to the surface. Please note the high tech scaffolding and pristine nature of my work space LOL. I adjusted the size of parts of it as I was laying it out. When you come into the rotunda and look to your left you see the India/Pakistan section then Italy. He was a big help and by explaining to him what I was up to along the way and answering his questions it helped clarify what I was doing to myself. My helper, Jim Cox known as ‘Jimbo’ was working with me on this project. Here are three sections of “It’s A Small World mural” I have some drawings and details shots.

Turtle pony bead pattern skin#

It was interesting working with all the different skin tones. The logistics were pretty neat, Often giving me a headache figuring it all out. I painted two inches longer to trim when hanging. the paper pattern was to figure bottom edge of mural. Note where the brick walls come out into room there is a glass roof at about a thirty degree angle up the wall which made it impossible to stand on so we had to lay down or bend down to our feet and below to make a paper pattern and to paste mural to wall. Sorry for poor picture but you can get idea of size and what fun it was to hang on wall. The oriental boy in the orange top is approx. Third girl in from left should have been dropped down about six inches for perspective reasons, too late now but have learn to look closer in future.

These pictures were taken in my shop before installation. This mural is at an elementary school mounted 10 to 12′ up the wall it was painted with acrylic house paint and some artist acrylic(very little) on 100% polyester canvas which was pre-primed on two sides and then wall paper pasted to a rotunda wall using articulating lifts. C&C welcomed, digital playing is fine too. I have a long shot and some closer shots for detail. This section is about 14′ high and is what you see as you enter the lobby. This is the main section of a very long(140′ long) mural.