Moose Mural

Moose Mural Article

MURALIST - Local artist Michael Platzer recently completed a mural for the Lewistown Moose Club which depicts a scene including a moose and "The House of God," a children’s home in Mooseheart, Ill.
The mural will hang in the Moose hall.
(Photo by Elizabeth Coyle)

Local Artist Michael Platzer (left) and Rod Ciecierski, both of Lewistown sit in front of the recently completed Lewistown Moose Family Center mural painted by Platzer. The acrylic mural represents the organizations moose and Mooseheart Illinois’s House of God Church. Ciecierski and others helped Platzer erect the mural. The organization contracted Platzer to do the work.
(Photo by Jason Minick)

MOOSE MURAL

Before I started painting the Moose Mural, I first created a scaled down 16" x 20" version. My buddy Rod built eight 5' x 3' wooden frame sections and stretched bed sheets over each frame and applied a couple coats of white latex house paint to make it more like canvas. Rod then stood each section side by side in his front yard and sketched out the artwork. It took approximately two weeks for this process. Next we removed each section from their frame and.......

Moose Mural is 25' x 5'

....draped each over a PVC pipe that hung from the ceiling in my studio (made for this purpose).
I painted on each section like a typewriter types, from left to right top to bottom; one section at a time. For most of the painting I used a 2 inch wide brush.

From start to finish, painting 5 - 8 hours a day, it took me approximately three months to completed.

Close-up of section 1

Close-up of me painting section 7

Close-up of sections 1 & 2.

Close-up of me painting section 6.

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