Saturday, August 19, 2006

New Mural for the New Church



I am painting murals for the new church in the kids rooms. I am not doing them all but a good portion of them. I started with the kindergarden room, the first room on the left that has windows for light since there is no electricity yet. I decided to do a jungle room with lots of bugs, frogs, dragonflies, birds and monkeys and I think the scripture will be "God created all things" I have to look it up. I am so sick of seeing Noah's Ark at every church so I want to do some different things. The church is very open and as long as I am not painting scenes from Hell I guess it all good. LOL I told my husband, dont think I didn't think about it, just a good threat for misbehaving kids. Just kidding. Anyway, it is not finished but I have a pretty good start. I got a bit to realistic so I am adding some fun wild colored bushes and stuff to liven it up a bit, after all this is Kindergarten!!! I wanted the whole background to just fade into the distance and all the fun animals to pop off of it. Here is my WIP (work in progress) more to come after I return from Tennessee! It is hard to see but this is a fairly good size wall, maybe 20'x9'. I have 11 hours into it so far.

5 comments:

Susan said...

Oh, I love it! That's a great snake. For a minute, I thought it was the G of E, but when other animals are added, the scriptures will fit perfectly!

"Maggie & Kevin" said...

It looks as though you are off to a great start on the mural, I look forward to popping in to see your progress. I too use to paint murals and finally stopped. I created some illustrations for my church out in Roseville, CA a few years back and they were then made into small murals for the entrance ways to each Sunday school rooms.

http://www.designerm.com/illustcrb.htm

and here: http://www.designerm.com/murals2.htm

Margaret McCarthy Hunt said...

WOW awesome job!....Arent kids murals sooo much fun?

suzanne cabrera said...

I'm so happy to have found your blog. I enjoy both your work and commentary...I especially like your ideas for the kindergarten class :)

jill said...

love the mural. imagine how much fun that kids are going to have w/ that! great job!

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