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Dec. 2nd, 2006 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deliriumcrowI feel it is soemhow noteworthy that I painted my bedrrom in a space of less than ten hours.
This would not be noteworthy ahd I not painted a *huge bloody mural* all over the walls and onto the ceiling. It's quite pretty though, and I think I shall be a little less homesick now. And why is this? Well, lookee :
This is where my bed will go. And at about 1 this afternoon it looked like this:
This is where the bookshelves will go, and a large canvas over the window, around which will be painted a frame. The canvas will have a painting of a bedroom on it.
The rest of the book case corner.
at the foot of the bed, and the door. That has to be painted, though I'm not sure in what colours yet. I need good tape first, though ...
the tree that will be mostly hidden behind my ugly-as-fuck dresser.
The tree again, and behind the door.
One of the other photos of ... well, there would have been more processs photos but I was covered in paint. This is again the bookshelf corner. I had done the sky first in an almost robin's egg blue, adn then the darkest green with the top ragged on over the blue. The brown bit in the middle became a tree eventually, though there was a small issue there. I'd intended to use the colour from the hallway, but found that it had been left partially open and was pretty much dry. There was about an inch of semi-solid good, and under it was this ... well, it looked and felt like a cross between chocolate pudding and heavy craft glue. And went on the wall about as smoothly as cheese. So i went trolling through the closet in the studio (well, hot water heater room, full fo random stuff) and found a lighter shade of paint, and mixed that with the darker bark paint. That was messy. And sort of fun. And so bark painting became something very like painting on a canvas, complete with mixing paint on the brush and other things I like to do wrong but that give a decent effect.
After bark came two layers of greens, over the dark. medium was next (all of this with rags) in general tree-like patterns. Over this is the light, which goes out farther on the ceiling, but not as far down on the walls, thinning out roughly where the tree trunks end. All in all, I'm terribly pleased with myself here.
This would not be noteworthy ahd I not painted a *huge bloody mural* all over the walls and onto the ceiling. It's quite pretty though, and I think I shall be a little less homesick now. And why is this? Well, lookee :
This is where my bed will go. And at about 1 this afternoon it looked like this:
This is where the bookshelves will go, and a large canvas over the window, around which will be painted a frame. The canvas will have a painting of a bedroom on it.
The rest of the book case corner.
at the foot of the bed, and the door. That has to be painted, though I'm not sure in what colours yet. I need good tape first, though ...
the tree that will be mostly hidden behind my ugly-as-fuck dresser.
The tree again, and behind the door.
One of the other photos of ... well, there would have been more processs photos but I was covered in paint. This is again the bookshelf corner. I had done the sky first in an almost robin's egg blue, adn then the darkest green with the top ragged on over the blue. The brown bit in the middle became a tree eventually, though there was a small issue there. I'd intended to use the colour from the hallway, but found that it had been left partially open and was pretty much dry. There was about an inch of semi-solid good, and under it was this ... well, it looked and felt like a cross between chocolate pudding and heavy craft glue. And went on the wall about as smoothly as cheese. So i went trolling through the closet in the studio (well, hot water heater room, full fo random stuff) and found a lighter shade of paint, and mixed that with the darker bark paint. That was messy. And sort of fun. And so bark painting became something very like painting on a canvas, complete with mixing paint on the brush and other things I like to do wrong but that give a decent effect.
After bark came two layers of greens, over the dark. medium was next (all of this with rags) in general tree-like patterns. Over this is the light, which goes out farther on the ceiling, but not as far down on the walls, thinning out roughly where the tree trunks end. All in all, I'm terribly pleased with myself here.
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Date: 2006-12-03 10:05 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-12-03 02:20 pm (UTC)I hope this does help with your homesickness.
Can't wait to see you.
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Date: 2006-12-04 03:50 am (UTC)The mural actually does seem to he helping with the homesickness, though in the spring I'll probably end up painting all the flowers that I'm not seeing all over whatever wall space remains.
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Date: 2006-12-03 06:12 pm (UTC)Do you do commissions?
I might call you when Sharon & I buy our house, I've had some ideas for decor, but I suck at painting.
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Date: 2006-12-03 06:36 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-12-04 10:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-04 10:35 pm (UTC)And thanks. :)
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Date: 2006-12-08 05:41 am (UTC)btw.. this is Ryan, mind if I add ya here? :)
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Date: 2006-12-08 09:13 am (UTC)and thanks.
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Date: 2006-12-08 05:11 pm (UTC)i've been wanting to do something like that for years with my room ever since I did a constuction paper forest at the library I worked at. so far all I have is a frog lol.
once again....very impressive work!
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Date: 2006-12-08 05:37 pm (UTC)