I love to paint but have never settled on a style or medium, instead I have continued to explore art. I have always been attracted to the challenge and power of murals. So when an opportunity comes to paint on the large scale I get excited.
There are several approaches to painting a mural, including:
The traditional,
The modern,
The pure commercial,
The experimental,
And many more.
Each artist brings their unique style, vision, talent and experiences to a project. Since I have been painting in many mediums like oil, acrylic and watercolor, not to mention mixed media I find painting a mural both challenging and easy. I am able to use all the different methods to get the effects that I hope will make a remarkable project which will cause people to go "WOW."
In the first steps of this project I called upon years of sketching and design as I took two days to sketch the project on the wall. Of course that was after hours of working out the design on paper in small scale.
This week I began the actual painting. Using a traditional philosophy I started at the far distance of the landscape and painted the sky.
For this part I used the techniques one uses for painting in acrylic, (the paint I am using is latex interior house paint). Latex paint dries quicker than acrylic or oil, so I was fighting a constant frustration with the medium setting up before I was ready. Moving up from the horizon the colors darken and deepen since it is a scene at the end of the day. As I applied the paint I began to use a technique that was more like painting in oil by the impressionist; it was not my intention but a solution I was using to cope with the paint.
I began the clouds with an undercoating of white. When it dried I began to add soft colors of yellow, brown, rose and a pale burgundy, these colors were applied with a "scrumble technique;" that is an scrubbing and scribbling application with the brush. I was using it to force an irregular blend of colors. The clouds took hours to paint- so far.
I was out of time and spent a half hour to clean up and look at the work. When I return I will continue to add detail to the clouds.
Those who have seen the clouds say, "Oh they are done." I could move on from there and do other parts but I have a vision of Renaissance proportions and so will be spending many more hours on this that normal for a commercial mural.
(c) Adron
There are several approaches to painting a mural, including:
The traditional,
The modern,
The pure commercial,
The experimental,
And many more.
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| Painting the sky in the Emmaus Road Mural |
In the first steps of this project I called upon years of sketching and design as I took two days to sketch the project on the wall. Of course that was after hours of working out the design on paper in small scale.
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| Painting the Clouds in the Emmaus Road Mural |
For this part I used the techniques one uses for painting in acrylic, (the paint I am using is latex interior house paint). Latex paint dries quicker than acrylic or oil, so I was fighting a constant frustration with the medium setting up before I was ready. Moving up from the horizon the colors darken and deepen since it is a scene at the end of the day. As I applied the paint I began to use a technique that was more like painting in oil by the impressionist; it was not my intention but a solution I was using to cope with the paint.
I began the clouds with an undercoating of white. When it dried I began to add soft colors of yellow, brown, rose and a pale burgundy, these colors were applied with a "scrumble technique;" that is an scrubbing and scribbling application with the brush. I was using it to force an irregular blend of colors. The clouds took hours to paint- so far.
I was out of time and spent a half hour to clean up and look at the work. When I return I will continue to add detail to the clouds.
Those who have seen the clouds say, "Oh they are done." I could move on from there and do other parts but I have a vision of Renaissance proportions and so will be spending many more hours on this that normal for a commercial mural.
(c) Adron
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