99.9% done!

Yay! I am so excited! Just one more day to touch up some trees, and that's it! A friend who has been reading the blog recently saw the mural in person, and he said that the pictures don't really do it justice.  I agree, but just the same, here is a shot of the 99.9% completed mural.

as of 3.18.2012

The fact that pictures don't do it justice means you will have to come and see it in person!
Please join us for a reception this Sunday, March 25, from 4:30-6pm at Triple C Camp, 920 Camp Road, C'ville VA 22902.

I will leave you with one more photo, perhaps the most satisfying shot of all: the wad of masking tape I pulled off all the surrounding walls yesterday. Boy, did that feel good!

Almost finished!

Yes, I know the reception is the 25th but the mural is not finished yet. It's getting very close, though. Just the other day I sat back after a day's work and for the first time I thought "It's almost finished!" There is still work to be done for sure, but the hard part of figuring out where everything will go is done. There are just a few small plants and insects left to add, and I know where they are going.

After the last of the identifiable animal and plant species are finished, hopefully in the next couple of days, then I will just need to add a little greenery to tie everything together, and add the leaves to the trees. In real life, each tree has thousands of leaves. I'd have to be crazy to attempt that, so I will be using a layered approach to get depth, and then outlining and highlighting a few leaves near eye level for each tree. The shape and bark of each tree is very specific, so adding some identifiable leaves to each one should make it possible to identify the common tree species.

then

and now

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

five-lined skink

barred owl

big brown bat

black racer and pickerel frog

cardinal

crayfish

crow, cottontail, brown fungus

eastern fence lizard

eastern newt

yellow-shafted flicker and monarch butterfly

mourning dove

painted turtles on a log

red shouldered hawk

There are three soaring birds, a red-tailed hawk, raven. and black vulture. The paintings look odd up close, because they are designed to be seen from far away.

black vulture

raven

red-tailed hawk

To read more about the mural, the role it will play in the community, and how you can support it, please see the website below.
http://greenadventureproject.org/Green-Adventure-Project/Support-GAP/Teaching-Wall-Campaign.aspx

And please join us for the reception from 4:30-6pm on March 25th if you're in town.