Birches Mural

Another mural!
(not huge this time. a bedroom wall)

Here's a sketch:

Painting of Haim and Julia

Just started a caricature painting present for a couple I know.

Then, after realizing I skipped the middle tone stage, I put some darks on :


And that's the next step:

Then put some values, a bit color:

Painting the mural

Some coloring:








Here are some beginnings:




And that's why I can't continue. I think the wall shrank in the rain, but I can't measure it. Notice that the promised cones are present.


The wall did shrink by 18 ft. so I had to change the composition a bit, but everything got in.
And that's most of the outlines:

The Whispering Tree

Another project that came from Craigslist is a CD cover for a group called the Whispering Tree, who thought of something very specific, and I thank them for it.
I gave them an option of doing it in one painting

or in two paintings, that would cover the front the back and two sided booklet.


They went for two.

They wanted to see a variation of the front cover so I let them choose between

and


They went with the original.

I offered them the color sketches

And I went to Utrecht to buy canvases. To be continued...

Mural for Kings Bay Y

I started working on two projects recently. One is a 130 feet long mural for a Kingsbay Y, Jewish Community Center I work in with kids, in Brooklyn. It is located on a parking lot on avenue U and Nostrand Avenue.

I started with a sketch:

The supervisors loved it and I went to the next step, coloring.At that point the sketch finally reached the highest authority where, as it should always be expected, met some difficulties and revisions followed.

Meanwhile I started working on the mural itself.

There's the grid:


and there are some drawings:



And here is the revised version. (Colored after it was already put on the wall and yet to be seen by the dubious authority).