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Beach scene painted on back wall in room which will house the tv studio at Gilbert Middle school.
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Villa scene painted on projection screen for backdrop for school tv show.
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Another view of the large screen. I hung it on the back wall of my studio to paint...
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One more porthole before you go out the door...
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I did portholes at the sinks in this girls bathroom with view of the lake.
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Paddles and towels in girls bathroom...School colors are yellow/green.
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Another view...
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View as you enter the boys bathroom. That was alot of 'S" strokes to paint that rope...
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Nautical flags painted in boys bathroom...Character education words are on the flags.
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I painted faux wooden planks as a fream around the mirror...knot holes and all...
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Painted shelf with nautical items in girls restroom.
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Wish the true color of the walls were in the pic...
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Close up view of the commpass and words.
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I used a drawing I found on the internet to free hand the compass design.
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Compass painted in the boys bathroom...Each of the character words are written on the needles of the compass. Once again the mural is seen time you open the bathroom door.
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Nautical star is seen when you open the door to the restroom.
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A "Nautical star" painted in a girls bathroom. Each of the character education words are written on the star.
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Another seagull carrying a word..
I tried to incorporate the words into the designs.
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Courage is one of 8 words taught in character education...
Courage
Civility
Cooperation
Citizenship
Integrity
Humility
Patience
Self-Discipline
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View when you open the door into the bathroom.
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Nautical theme in boys bathroom of LMES..They are the "Mariners"..
Character education words were used in the murals.
Pic doesnt do the wall color justice...its a periwinkle blue.
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School and motto letters are each about 2 feet tall....
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Finished hot air ballooon and kids
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Finished balloon....also added clouds in the open space where I had painted over the Indian...
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Another view before doing detail work on the balloons
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Getting ready to start shading/highlighting balloon....
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Children flying high over the town of Gilbert.....
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Another view of the balloons
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I basecoated the balloon with darker colors as I drew it on the wall...
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First day....I primed over the Indian on the stallion and over the wording...You can see how large this mural is.
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The sixth, seventh, and eighth grade choral members are in for a surprise when they start back to school on Aug. 20...
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Seems like everything I've done lately is HUGE!!!
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The finished mural...The sixth, seventh & eighth graders are going to get a surprise when they return to school on Aug 20...
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I made a contraption with 5 pencils to do the musical score so they would all be even...This actually took me longer to do than the entire warrior...
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Geez!! that headdress took ALOT of strokes!!!
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The beginnings of the Alma Mater and the warrior is almost finished.
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more progress on the warrior...this is on the back wall of the choral room at Gilbert Middle School.
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The beginnings of the "singing" warrior...I did a soft background of blue, tan, and grey...
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This corner of the lobby was done with dark green shutters and doors. Faux windows were also painted.
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The wall fountain and trellises are painted on the wall in the lobby of the middle school. The ferns and bench are real.
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Another hallway sign.
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Each wing(building) of the school now has a sign painted on the bulkhead in the main lobby. I also painted exposed bricks to give it some color.
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Close up of the windows and painted media center sign.
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Another shot of the fountain area.
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View of Guidance office now with painted door.
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Painted door to the Guidance office. You can see the window/shutter in the upper lefthand corner. All the doors only had one window, now with the magic of paint they have 2.
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Painted geraniums, windows and wrought iron over the doors/windows of the media center..Ill add greenery to the wrought iron. and Ill be adding more to the blank space between the real windows.
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Now that the doors are painted it looks more like the villa I had envisioned for the common area of the school lobby. You can see what it looked like before paint in the next picture.
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Wooden doors were painted the same color as the faux shutters on the faux windows . I also painted a faux window on the doors to balance them. Wall sconces and a wrought iron basket of geraniums have also been added
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The lobby of the school will look like an italian villa when I get through painting all the detailing around the building.
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Here's the doors before I painted them.
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Doors of main office painted to match the shutters on the faux windows..I also added the topiary.
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Another arbor with garland painted over yet another door in the library.
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Mountain view is on the adjacent wall of the lake scene mural I painted last year in the middle school library.
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Mountain scene painted overtop of the bookshelves in the library.
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This window is adjacent to another window I painted on the projector cabinet last year.
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Beach window painted in the professional library at the middle school..
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I painted some banners (Reading Rules) and some wooden arrows on the trees on the forest scene I had painted earlier.
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Another view of the media center entrance
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Here the "knights" are guarding the media center.
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Notice, I gave each "Knight" a book rather than his sword.
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"Knight in Shining Armour" painted on either side of the library entrance.
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Palmetto tree in the corner and a magnolia tree in the midlands of SC
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Closeup of Carolina wren and yellow jasemine. This hall also leads to the third grade classrooms which study all about South Carolina.
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Made it to the ocean...3rd morning painting.
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End of 2nd morning of painting.
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Starting in the mountains and working my way toward the coast.
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After 5 hours, I have all the scene basecoated in....
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Heres what I started with....a bare wall in the entrance hall to the office of the school.
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Topiaries done on 3/4" plywood...these topiaries were done to flank the outside garden door I did for Gilbert Elementary School.
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What once was a drab brown exterior entrance is now an inviting door into the media center..I also did the faux stone work on the sidewalk in front of the door....These are the topiaries I painted on plywood.
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Finished door...I did faux trim around the windows..The "secret garden" door is right across the breezeway from this one, so I wanted them similar but yet different...The colors arent true in the photo as the door is done in tans not greys...
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2nd phase....the door has been basecoated in several shades of browns...its ready for all the detailing now...
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First step...prime the brown metal doors...now its ready to start painting.
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Main entrance into the school. All elements are trompe l'oeil except for the square glass panes and the door handles.
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Career Day at the elementary school...I painted this scene on a pulldown projector screen...A first for me, and what a wonderful "blank canvas" to get creative with. This scene will be used as the backdrop for the tv show produced by the students at the school.
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The other side of the castle.
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View from the ground level of a section of the castle. Notice the chain which is connected to the drawbridge...
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Another view of the castle from a ladder.
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Heres what Ive done so far to the castle. I also painted the sky area around the castle and based in the grassy area.
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Heres a view of the beginnings of the castle from the scaffolding. The piece you see protruding is a pulldown screen they use in the media center, I just painted it into the castle.
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View of the hanging lights from the floor. You can see the start of the castle Im painting on the far end of the library.
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Closeup of the candles on each light. I had to stand on scaffolding about 12 ft up in the air to paint each one.
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I painted candlebras on 15 hanging lights in the library. Each one has 13 candles on it....the underside of the light is painting like wrought iron.
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He's keeping eye on all the students who visit the library.
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Gilbert Elementary's mascot is the Eagle....so I had to incorporate one into the design.
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Forest painted on other end of the media center.
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Another view of the corner
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A reading corner with a tree/bench with books...I will add more to this scene in the next few days.
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I added some islands and more sailboats to the lake scene in this pic. Its a very serene mural.
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Lake scene painted over bookshelves on one side of the media center. It was still a work in progress when I took this pic
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I painted this lattice/wisteria arbor to enhance another door in the media center.
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This topiarylike arbor is painted over the door to the "Professional library".
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The professional library is used by the teachers and had no windows. This was a big brown box, now they can enjoy the view when they are having a meeting of the minds. Ill be adding some shading and highlighting to the window frame this week, too.
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Beach scene painted on wooden cabinet which houses a projection screen in the professional libray in the media center.
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There is a garden to the right of this door and I wanted it to be a part of the garden...they are going to buy 2 boxwood topiaries to put on both sides of the door...
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"Secret Garden Door" painted on outside metal door at the elementary school...
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It took 4 hours to paint the topiaries, lattice and wisteria..
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Wisteria,lattice surround the entrance with spiral topiaries flanking each side...There is another entrance on other side of library I will do something similiar.
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Entrance to Media Center(library) at Gilbert Primary School(K-3rd)..
We are doing a garden theme to reflect the school mission of
"Garden of Knowledge"
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The mural continues down this wall which has a view of the garden in the courtyard of the school..
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Large tree, flowers painted in the center wall of the mural. I did a big boulder with a lizard, thought the boys would enjoy that.
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Garden mural in reading pit of the library. Ill be adding different elements along in the afternoons.
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Another view of the entrance.
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Another entrance door into the library...I painted the same lattice and wisteria but did different topiaries.
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View of the bulkhead from the media center entrance.
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Right side of the bulkhead when you enter the media center
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After I masked off the lines of the window, I painted the sky and vines, and tree limbs...
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The bulkhead is in a v-shape about 12 ft. up...
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Faux window painted on bulkhead over entrance and checkout counter in media center
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Large tree painted on wall of cafeteria in Gilbert Elementary school.
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The wall the mural is painted on is 3 walls that makeup the backdrop for the stage area located in the cafeteria of Gilbert Middle School.
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I purposely left the mural slightly basic so they could adapt it to whatever activity they were doing on the stage area.
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I started with a white wall at 8am finished up the entire wall at 4:30..
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The full view of the quite large wall I painted the mural on...I did a similar scene last year on paper...this year it was painted on the block wall permanently.
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Meandering path flanked with spiral topiaries with wisteria covered arbor give depth to this mural.
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I used rollers to base in the sky and grassy areas which helped speed things along.
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It took 5 hours to complete the mural..I had lots of ooohhs and aaahhs from students and faculty during their lunch periods..
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The backdrop is behind a small stage in the cafetorium.
The gardeny scene will add to the overall garden theme of the banquet..Hope they have a great time...
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I painted this backdrop for the 8th grade End of Year Banquet on Friday night..The mural is painted on paper..unfortunately.
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Front outside entrance doors to the media center...I did the faux planks on the metal doors..The white area above the doors is primed and ready to become stone...
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I plan on painting the door handles to resemble wrought iron.Ill spray paint those with that paint that looks like hammered metal.
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Faux stonework painted on the area above the doors. I also sprayed the silver door handles with black spray paint that looks like hammered metal when dry..
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View of the inside of the library..You can see all 8 support columns... Next week we will be up on scaffolding painting story book characters along the top of the 4 walls...
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Sconces painted on the faux stone pillars...there are 8 of these pillars in the library all have been painted with stones and sconces to "light up the library"...
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Doors taped off to do the faux wooden planks....
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The other set of doors in the library painted like faux wooden planks....door knockers and all...It really goes with the castle theme we are doing throught the library
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Metal doors painted to look like castle doors. The metal doors were given a coat of primer, then painted black, then fauxed to look like wooden planks...
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Faux stones painted on the front surface of the checkout area in the library.
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Another view of the pond rug...The rug was placed in front of the checkout in the library. (see next pic)
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Faux koi pond painted on 6ft by 8 ft piece of linoleum...The frog Prince is waiting for his Princess
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The camel and donkey...they too are BIG..All designs were freehanded...
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Kneeling Shepherd and his sheep. He too is about 45 inches tall. Ill be creating more sheep and animals to add to the nativity scene
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The three Wisemen stand over 6 ft tall.You can see how they tower over the refrigerator they are leaning against.
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Mary, Joseph and the Baby Jesus..
They stand about 45 inches tall..actually they are kneeling...
Done on 1" exterior plywood.
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