We are going to paint a large mural on a building in Mesa AZ. Here is the 53ft tall building below. I'll update our progress here. This is the mural we are painting
ARIZONA LANDSCAPE MURALS BY SKYWOODS ON BUILDING IN MESA ARIZONA
Here we start on this giant mural. The mural will be 77ft wide x 51.5ft tall! First we cleaned and hosed the wall to be painted. Then we sprayed primer on the wall.
In the picture above, we created a giant grid, so we have our small mural design with grid lines on it.We snapped lines on the mural that are 2x2ft. That took forever!
In the picture above, we started on the top left with the impressionistic sky. Yeah!! finally we got some paint on the humongous wall! What did we get ourselves into!
Above, is the beginning of the top right corner. Two of our team started on the top right as we are on boom lifts and its easier to navigate the 2 boom lifts apart so we don't run into each other.
We backed up with the boom lift to capture a picture for you all from up here. Hope you like it so far.
Today, (above) we got a lot of the shadow side of the mountain painted and also the pretty sky
Yesterday our Skywoods team finished the rest of the sky and more of the mountains
Today we got a lot done on the mural and its starting to look like a mountain. We're also starting to get compliments from people down below.
Today we added some detail and more of the mountain on the left. (above)
Today we worked on the left side and painted some of the top of the Saguaro. The large saguaro measures 28" wide on the bottom part we finished painting! The line we painted to on the left is a little past half way.
Here's today's progress (above). We got a lot painted on the left and right side of the mural. Superstition Mountain is almost done and we are onto the Saguaros and landscape.
I'm very excited to finally get down to the new color palette of greens! Half of the large Saguaro is painted. I can't wait to keep painting across! That part I painted on the left with the the green color palette is about 60 square feet!
The next Saguaro is almost done. Also, more of the distant, blurry landscape (or bokeh).
Today we added more bushes and plants on the right. Contemporary Finishes We painted a Carrara marble finish on this clients' living room wall. they wanted a contemporary finish that would go with their colors and decor in the rest of the house. They were very happy with this finish!
We had so much fun with this mural! We painted a mural a couple of years ago with jungle animals playing sports. The same clients are having another baby- a girl
Archway Classical Academy Old World Mural - Plato, Aristotle and children coming to school
We were delighted to paint this mural for Archway Classical Academy in Chandler, AZ. They wanted a mural that had archways in it, (to go with their name), Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Also an Old World feel. So here is what we came up with. We loved painting this for them, everyone loved it! We completed it the day of the open house, and it was a huge hit!
Completed Fireplace Wall!
We competed the fireplace with color, antiquing and detail. then we faux finished the mantle to look like real wood with knots and graining.
Custom Created Mounytain Dry Stack Stone Fireplace
Now for the fun part - Coloring! This is where the real artist in me comes out! I love the coloring part of the process! We highlighted all the stones on the raised areas. We colored all the stones with about 10 different colors! Then we antiqued all the stones in the cracks.
First, we applied primer and scratch coat. Then let it dry. Then we applied the primer again, and mudded the wall with the cement with a heavy coat. We then used a mountain dry stack cement stamp to make the stone impressions with. We then detailed it by adding our own stones and character.Then we softened the edges and cleaned up all the access grit. This is sure messy, but fun and artistic!
Fireplace Wall Before - Plain Painted.
We completed the entire Game Room! Yeah!!!!! That was fun! Here's alot of photos of the completed Murals:
And here we have Speed-Demon-Anthony! With branch and bird nest in his hair,dog plastered in front, he's dragging a stoplight he ran over, crashed through barricades, and stop sign, not to mention speed limit sign! He has cop chasing him, what's he thinking? He's on the cell phone with his wife, and must want to get home in a hurry!
Sailor Steven in boat. He is oblivious to danger behind him, Just enjoying life at sea - and his hot dog!
Bulldog Gangster with machine gun guarding the safe!
First we have Cartoon Cowboy Tom busting into saloon !
Old World Breakfast Nook Completed! Like old, ruins in Italy or Greece, exposing brick and worn plaster, utterly run-down masterpiece!
In ceiling of breakfast nook, we painted a sky with a hawk landing on a branch.
Close-up of hawk landing
Old World Broken Walls Exposing Bricks Below is the before photo. We are transforming this breakfast nook into realistic-looking ruins like those in Greece and Italy! Above shows real heavy textured plaster walls with bricks carved into it randomly. White rectangle to the left it where we'll paint in a old rustic window. Underneath you see white broken walls exposing a sky. We still have to faux finish the white broken walls, and we're painting a Hawk landing on a branch.
I finished the mural, softened the edges, added reflection, fairies and unicorn.
This was a really fun project and the clients were very pleased with the mural.
Fireplace walls are focal points in a room and with the right touch, can transform an entire room! We did just that with this one. Above is the fireplace before.
We built a new mantle out of very charactered, rustic wood, and stained it. Then, faux finished the niche and painted the surrounding wall.
We covered the white tile with a stone product that we trowelled on and stained with several colors.
I painted some heiroglyphics on the stone above of horses and riders.
Here is the finished product. It turned out fabulous! The clients, Cheryl and Todd are very pleased, and want more work done now. They enjoy sitting in front of their brand new fireplace every day!
We transformed this entertainment center from white to antique leather. The clients love it, and tell us that all their friends love it too. This is one of our more popular finishes.
We also faux finished their kitchen ceiling and painted a copper metallic finish with antiquing.
Well, we had a request from a client for a hand-painted Serenity Prayer Mural for her husband on the bedroom wall for Christmas. What an exciting project! This well-known, beautiful saying apparently has very special meaning to him, and they recite it together EVERY night! Wow! We can all learn from that! After deciding where to paint it, we decided on brown to match the bedroom. It took us 10 hours but we completed it, and it came out fabulous! Her husband was instructed to stay out of the bedroom, however their German Shepherd kept pushing the door open out of curiosity, and we had to go and shut the door constantly, it was so funny! We had a great time painting and listened to Christmas music. After we completed the mural and cleaned up, the client brought her husband in with his eyes closed. When he opened his eyes in front of the mural, his mouth just dropped and he was so excited! Then he played with the dimmer switch for the two spotlights as you can see in the photos below. I hope we get alot more projects like this one, especially seeing their faces light up! The feeling is indescribable!
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