| 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'
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....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. |
