After the mess of the first round of photos (here are part I and part II) you must be curious how the whole thing actually turned out.
Well,… what do you think?
I didn’t notice that the photo turned out a bit blurry when I took them because the sun was blinding. So the pictured are just as unfocused and random as the mural itself….
How it started (go here for part I), how it’s going.
The only request I had for the mural, was to put a horse in it.
I went in with zero plan or structure because I wanted to put paint on the wall. Realized the paint is shit and with no plan it will be going no where so I started sketching out the scene on paper after all. The sketch turned out quite nice. Unfortunately I don’t have a photo of it.
So what followed was a second round of “sketching it out” directly with paint.
It’s been months since I have been drawing. I have been busy with my Etsy shop but otherwise I somehow let everything slip. There are lots of new print designs in my shop (bathroom humour seems to be a favourite) and I am working on a few Christmassy cards this week.
But beside that I haven’t managed to pick up a pen in the last two months. My excuse is “not having” the time but I think it is rather “not taking” it. However, I managed to use a paintbrush and did a mural while visiting a friend. I was equipped with bad paint, one very used paintbrush, limited time and only a vague idea of what to do.
Here are some before shots of the space and a first sketch. The old wallpaper was also anything but ideal as a surface.
Stay tuned for part II tomorrow.
Melanie Franz 