Sure enough... Just as I suspected, the practitioner gave me a Z-Pak to treat me for potential Brochitis. He also recommended a more powerful allergy and decongestant mediation and he added a third blood pressure medication to the two I already take. Oh my, that is a total of 6 pills I currently have to take in a day. Old age, I guess ( I turned 53 last month ).
We spent the day getting rid of the hard lines in the blue twilight sky areas by blending with a soft dry brush. We were able to cover an area of about 5 feet by 200 feet straight across the sky, which is the full length of the mural. This means we are still on track to have most of the sky blocked in with more accurate colors including all the clouds by the end of the workday tomorrow. By the end of the week, I want people to know where I'm going with the colors, the composition and the mood in the sky, the mountains and the foreground at just a glance, even though it will be far from finished at this stage. I hope to be at the half-way point by the end of September, which means I really have to push it a little.
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.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
TODAY MY BRAIN WAS UP IN THE CLOUDS!
I got up early this morning ( 5:30 a.m. ) with the intention of doing a little volunteer church work at the local LDS meat packing plant before going to work on the GODZILLA PROJECT. Unfortunately, when I woke up, I had the dry heaves, a bad migraine headache, itchy eyes and a runny nose. I dropped by the meat packing plant just to let them know that I felt sick and thought it would be best if I didn't go to work there this morning for fear of contaminating the meat with some sort of virus. I have an appointment to see the doctor tomorrow morning. Hopefully it's nothing too serious. My biggest fear is catching pneumonia or bronchitis again. I can't afford to be out of commission for 3-4 weeks again. If it is something like that, perhaps I caught it early enough that a Z-Pak of antibiotics will kill it within just a few days.
In spite of how I felt, I did go to work on the mural today. I managed to paint an area of sky about eight feet by seventy-five feet of it ( not quite half, but almost ). My goal is to have the sky pretty well blocked in by Wednesday. So there I was, high as a kite, doped-up on Thera-Flu and Exedrin Migraine, up in the air painting clouds.
In spite of how I felt, I did go to work on the mural today. I managed to paint an area of sky about eight feet by seventy-five feet of it ( not quite half, but almost ). My goal is to have the sky pretty well blocked in by Wednesday. So there I was, high as a kite, doped-up on Thera-Flu and Exedrin Migraine, up in the air painting clouds.
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