Mural I - Day 3

I started adding some ultramarine blues today.

I need to start filling in the lower section to help me get some balance.

Mural I - Day 2

Today I started adding some shading into the mountains. A bit of cerulean blue and white, a touch of phtalo and burnt umber for the darks.

Still day one

This is the first day. Just the base coates today. As you can see I don't do any drawings unless it's with my brushes.

This is the first step of a mural I recently did. It's in a small banquet room in a new steak house. The room itself is longer than it is wide and the walls are dark forest green. The entire wall is brick except for the section with the archway, which was designed especially for the mural. The owner would like to retire someday and have a view much like this one. He gave me a small photo to go by, unfortunately he thought it was somewhere in Colorado...but? As you will see in the last photo I add, it's actually the Canadian Rockies, Lake Moraine.

The Making of a Mural

Being a self taught artist all my life, needing to share my skills and whatever knowledge I've acquired with others. I decided to create this blog for some of my recent mural projects. Not that I know any thing special about painting things, but simply because I enjoy sharing my projects with others.

I've taught art classes for years now both in military communities abroad and at a local technical school, but never have I been able to teach a mural class. So...anybody reading this one, will be my guinnea pigs if they want to do their own murals. NO stencils, NO preliminary sketches...I paint from my heart and my soul. I paint fast and intensly for about 5 to 6 hours a day with little or no breaks other than stepping back long enough to grasp a view now and then. But when my arms tire, or my mind slows down..I simply quit for the day and come back again tomorrow. "IF" that is, I am in a painting mood. As unfortunately, I am a mood painter most days.
Cam