Well, after all that hullabalou, we actually started painting the sky in the "GODZILLA MURAL" today. I am using acrylics. Every time I try acrylics, I realize how much I don't like them. I will probably do a few more acrylic colors, then it's back to oils again. At the very least, I will finish applying the current color all the way across the top of the sky, then blend in lighter and bluer colors, along with the cloud colors of a twilight time of day. I will probably end up doing most of the sky in artist oils. I feels good to once again be back at the process of mural painting. Other than my wife and family, my first love is painting, my second love is hiking in the wilderness or horseback riding the back woods of nature. The later love requires someone with a horse. I don't own one myself. A friend has mules, but currently no truck to pull his trailer. The best experience I ever had on horseback is with a Tennessee Walker. This breed of horse has such a smooth gait, it's like riding on a cloud.
Yesterday was a state holiday in Utah --- Pioneer Day. I invited my wife, my two youngest daughters, Annie and Kendra, along with their husbands, Mark and Andrew on a hike up to Stewarts Falls. The waterfalls is a natural spring which comes right out of the mountain and is not far from the Sundance Ski Resort in Utah. At a good pace, it only takes about 45 minutes to get to the falls and you are of course nicely rewarded by natures beauty along the trail and at trails end.
Tomorrow, I plan to put in a good long day --- painting on the mural, stretching canvases for an upcoming plein air workshop and working on my studio paintings. See you next time.
Novatek South Addition Mural
This mural measures 22 feet high by 200 feet long
FINISHED MURAL WITH NEW FAUX MARBLE FLOOR
Here is a section of the mural finished with the new floor.
REFLECTIONS
more floor, less mural
FINISHED FIRST SECTION
The mural is now finished. This is the first section.
FINISHED SECOND SECTION
All the highlights and shadows are now finished on the snow and all over the rest of the mural.
FINAL THIRD SECTION
We tried to capture the twilight time of day. I think we were successful.
FINISHED FOURTH SECTION
Even the tops of the trees indicate the last few moments early evening light.
FINISHED FIFTH SECTION
I like the way the shadow and light plays on the rocky Timpanogos slopes.
FINISHED SIXTH SECTION
Provo Canyon.
FINISHED SEVENTH SECTION
I love the way the shadows and light bring out the rock forms on Cascade Peak.
ELK CLOSE UP
I'm not really a wildlife painter, yet I feel pretty good about how this bull elk turned out.
EIGHTH SECTION
Squaw Peak (the one with the red scrub oak trees on it's slopes) is mosly in shadow, but with a sliver of light at the top.
FINISHED NINTH SECTION
The middle section of Squaw Peak.
SQUAW PEAK
THis looks so real, it's like you can walk right through it! Pick any door.
LAST SECTION
This shows Rock Canyon during the last few moments of evening light.
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