Friday, October 23, 2009

A New Mural


These beautiful and giant birch panels will become a mural of arbutus trees with aluminum leaf sky. It seems a shame to cover the lovely grain of real trees with artificial painted trees.
My studio is dwarfed and looks a little funny.


The richly colored primer is jolly though.


But with black tree sillouettes it turns into a spooky Hallow'een image. Tomorrow I'll glue the aluminum leaf on and it will all take on a different feeling yet again.

4 comments:

  1. can't wait to see the next step. you're so brave!

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  2. Ooh, where is this one going? I love those birch panels, they would make wall covering on their own, but I know that you will do them justice. Just cool to know that underneath your trees there are others. All very ghostly!

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  3. I agree that the birch panels are beautiful but you'll transform them into something magical. How do you like working so big?

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  4. How wonderful that you take us through your procedures for the Arbutus tree panels.

    So far I have only considered the flowers, berries and leaves of our A. unedo 'Rosea', as the multiple trunks are hidden from view. I shall have to and investigate to see if they match up.

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