Artist at Work, Mural, Trompe Dollhouse
Today I dismantled the drawer so it could be primed ready for painting. The stone colour (the undercolour) was mixed up and painted wherever stone should appear. I masked all the interior rooms and painted the walls and ceiling of two of them in white. Here is the...
Artist at Work, Mural, Trompe Bushland
Today was the last painting day to finish off. I painted nine birds, one marsupial, and one monotreme. The central tree, a lemon-scented eucalyptus, had more detail added. Then it was time to paint the memory plaque and sign this mural. Fisnished! Next jobs will be to...
Artist at Work, Mural, Trompe Bushland
I added some branches for the birds to perch on. Painted a whole pile of critters today, using my tiniest brush. There are all sorts of critters, from spiders to dragonflies to lizards to frogs to grasshoppers. Lots of them are near the water’s edge. Some are...
Artist at Work, Mural, Trompe Bushland
I added a few more Brisbane butterflies, then added two big Brisbane beetles: the Stag beetle and the Christmas beetle. The flowers on the deck in the pots needed to have their shadows adjusted too. Here is the time lapse so you can see how it unfolded: See All Trompe...
Artist at Work, Mural, Trompe Bushland
Today painted a pretty python perched between the pot plants. And two other sneaky snakes, one harmless and one nasty. Here are detailed closeups of my three snakes. Snake Detail 1 Snake Detail 2 Snake Detail 3 Then it was on to painting up a butterfly storm....
Artist at Work, Mural, Trompe Bushland
Lots of fine detail work today: creating the hoya vine with its intricate flowers, then the Richmond Birdwing butterflies on their vine. Here is the time lapse so you can see how it unfolded: See All Trompe Bushland...
Artist at Work, Mural, Trompe Bushland
The flowers on the shrubs always really bring the mural to life. I added highlights to the wall plant hangers and painted the King Orchid on the deck. I was about to paint the last two deck plants but our friends arrived and demanded we both stop work and come out and...
Artist at Work, Mural, Trompe Bushland
This is where the painting starts to come to life! I started adding in the flowers in the bushes at the rear, and added detail to the two Ironbark trees. I think the darker thin branches and leaves at the top add to the overall depth of the whole painting. The pathway...
Artist at Work, Mural, Trompe Bushland
A big day today painting details. I finished fixing the shapes of the big terracotta pots on the deck, then cast dark shadows across them. I added the birds next ferns in the hanging pots, and painted lots of rocks, grasses and pebbles, and created the babbling brook...
Artist at Work, Mural, Trompe Alhambra
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