This week I worked on both the kitchen and laundry room of a beautiful new home is Castle Pines. The photos from the kitchen are self explanatory but I have only included a detail shot from the laundry room. This night dress is one item on a 14 foot clothesline mural.

While working on the hood over the stove I discovered a new technique which I think I will employ often. I generally sketch the composition in pencil and then skip straight to the acrylics. Since these clients were very particular I wanted to make sure they liked the sketch before I spent too much time on the painting. The pencil sketch was very difficult to see so I went over it with what I'm going to call a wet sketch. I had a brown glaze left over from another project so I 'sketched' with that. The result was a beautiful tone-on-tone sepia composition which only took about a half hour and was the perfect way to make sure the clients and I were on the same page.

I just wanted to explain, in part, my long absence from blogging. I went on a trip for a long weekend with my mother-in-law and my two sisters-in-law. Since then I have been playing catch up. As proof that I haven't just been twiddling my thumbs I offer this photo of myself with my sister-in-law P.J. (with Alcatraz in the background) and, the previous posting. I have been very busy.

At present I am working in a beautiful home in Castle Pines, CO. My next posting will include photos of that work.

Thank you for your continued interest in Michelle Frances Murals!

Here are a few images from my latest mural. When finished Tommy's room will resemble the bridge of a space ship. The large mural (approx. 10'x20') is the view through the large front window of the ship. This image was inspired by the phenomenal illustrations in a great kids book, The Worst Band in the Universe. I have included three pictures; the center third of the mural, the right third and a close up of a space bug. The silver claw as well as the suction cup feet are part of the space ship as seen through the window.

The two side walls in the room are to be painted silver and Tommy's dad (a finish carpenter) is going to build wall to wall built-ins on the back wall ( a.k.a. the control panel).

I hope that you enjoy looking at the photos of this project! I certainly enjoyed working on it!!!