Today at Trompe Moongate, my task was to build the jetty into Hạ Long Bay. I started by painting the wood so it gets paler into the distance, much like a real jetty. However, I realised that the jetty needed to be narrower to create the right illusion. That means that...
There is not long to go for Trompe Moongate on Oxford St, Bulimba. I spent today working on the details of the foreground, specifically the last two fishing boats located at the end of the jetty. You can see the end result in the image below. This once again involved...
Unfortunately, mural painting doesn’t always go to plan. Today at Trompe Moongate, I was planning to finish work on the jetty. However, during the week my rain coat broke! This meant I had to spend my time at the mural today rebuilding the rain coat with a...
I’m rugged up again today to work on Trompe Moongate in the cold morning air. I started by tweaking a few small features on the fishing villages that I completed yesterday. Then I added something really exciting, an emerald, green glaze across the water. A glaze...
Today at the Trompe Moongate mural I have been working on the fishing villages. There are two sections of fishing villages on the water, a distant one on the right and a closer one on the left. After finishing these villages, I’ll be really close to finishing...
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