Mural on Mom's wall

Mural of K-Ville Assembly Church in Florida

This is some close up pictures of the mural I have posted on the header .I better start at the beginning , I met Robin Franklin , Pastors wife of K-Ville Assembly of God ,at our community yard sale in 2004 we were all selling crafts as well as yard sale items , at the time I had some of my gourds for sale and Robin was talking about them and admiring the paint work ,when I told her I painted them, she wanted to see more of my work, so I showed her my collection of photos on murals ,gourds and just paintings , She then told me about the church mural they had was needing a touch up job and wanted to know if I was interested .
I told her yes I was that we could get together and talk it over with her husband Britt Franklin ,so I started the job the first part of March after going for the paint and etc. I used outside latex acrylic paints from Lowes ,started out having to have the wall cleaned off first with  a pressure washer .
 My husband Royce and the pastor helped to set up a scaffolding for me to stand on . The first few days it was pretty windy and cool, but I knew I needed to get as much done as I could because of the sun moving back north .
It took me the better part of March to get it done ,of course I did not work on it everyday ,but I really had fun doing this!
If you will note on the close up of the oak tree on the top left there are real lilies and painted lilies ,and they happen to be blooming while I was painting ,amazing !

Grandson's Outer Space Room

The same week I painted the girls room I painted the boys room too, with my daughters help we painted the wall this deep blue ,as I started painting the planets I told DeeDee that it sure isn't going to look right with a white ceiling , so we went back to Home Depot and got some more blue paint ,of course the ceiling was a popcorn ceiling !
So after struggling to get it painted I was able to finish on the planets ,Sun ,gassy stars ,comets and the space shuttle .
The hardest part was making clouds and stars on the ceiling with a few comets .I had to use a sponge to get the cloudy look ,one  even looks like the milky way . We also purchased the glow in the dark stars, but we had to use the new liquid nails to get them to stay .
Then a surprise when I painted the window the same shade of blue ! I was painting a comet and accidently scratched the paint , pesto ! Magic stars !
The light from out side made it look so real .

 I was afraid it would be too dark, but not for them ,the boys loved it !

Grand-daughters mural

This is part of a mural I painted for my grand-daughters room 3 or 4 years ago ,this was really a challage because the 2 girls shared a room , I asked them what would they like painted on their walls ,the oldest one Heather wanted Dolfin's and the younger one Cheyenne wanted flowers, birds and butterflies !
Wow ! I wonder how I should do this ,then got to thinking I will start with the ocean with the Dolfins and have it go onto land with rocks trees and etc then further around the room I started the flowers with birds & butterflies  .So when we started out we painted the room half blue and half pink !
  I painted the ocean with the waves and part of the land all in one afternoon ,I painted the dolfins last as well as the flowers birds and butterflies ,these were all done on another day.I like to leave all the detail work for last .