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
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...
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