Here are a few photos from a project I finished recently... another Tuscan scene. This mural is a continuation of one of my very first murals. It is amazing how much I have improved and my style has matured over the past five or six years. Not to say that I didn't know what I was doing five years ago but my murals are now definitely my own. They have a grace and subtlety that they did not when I first started my business.
The first part of the mural is in the staircase leading down to the basement and wine cellar/ tasting room of a Denver home. This latest mural is in the basement just outside the tasting room. There really isn't any point when the viewer can see both murals simultaneously so I didn't have to revert to my early techniques for consistency. It was enough to use the same color palette and subject matter. This mural is in an alcove which I tried to visually turn into a balcony so, I had to suggest the outside wall of a villa on the hallway wall opposite. In order to do this I simply painted a window with a grape vine and a few hanging petunias (details I pulled from the original 2004 mural).
All in all I am very pleased with the mural. Over the past few years I have been developing my technique of layering glazes and I love the effect. It gives the murals a 'watercolor' feel and the technique helps create a lightness and airy quality which many murals lack.
The photo below (with the low wall and pillar) is of a section of the original mural.
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