Serenity Prayer Mural

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!

Suede Faux Finish

We finished the suede faux finish room and it looks very elegant with the clients' beautiful dining table. They love it!

Suede Room

Today we started on a suede Formal Dining Room. We had to smooth it out, as it had orange peel texture. It took two coats to smooth it out. Then we primered it .

Then we rolled on our first coat.

Completing Babyroom Mural

I added a cartoon plane, a bear holding a block, a bear holding up a block toy bees and ladybug, train and cars. I tried to match the wallpaper border we installed around the room.
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Baby Room Mural

I Added more detail to the babyroom mural with letters abc and numbers123 and a bear and duck.

Baby Room Mural

We painted the room two-tone, top- light beige, and bottom brown.  I started on the mural by laying down an antique background, and some stacked blocks. Notice my first teddybear on top!

Baby Room Painting and Mural

Today we started on a Baby Room. Here is the room before:

Meditteranean Mural

We are working on a Mediterranean Mural.  Her we mudded in the areas to be painted to smooth out the rough texture.

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Next, we primedred and painted the areas with a basecoat.

Here we added clouds, land, trees, and mountains.

And Voila! The Finished Product!  Bill and Marcia love their new murals, especially since they are sailors!

Marble Columns

Today we worked on columns and marblized them.  I'll include photos as soon as we finish them

Rock Band Mural Day 5

More detail, highlights and shadowing. We decided to do more with the background. We will use more vibrant colors for the lighting. We decided to do more background and colors. Every time we get on a fun project, we always seem to do more and more and more. It is fun and maybe the client will let us do some other finishes in their home.

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Rock Band Mural Day 4

This is Day 4 & 5 progress. This is so much fun! The client would like Elvis playing the saxophone. OK. That’s probably never been done. The client’s cousin plays in a 80s retro band. They dress-up really fun. We wanted to make him look like he is having the best experience of his life. Michael Jackson, Cher, Jimmie Hendrix, Elton John, & Eddie Van Halen are added.

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Rock Band Mural Day 3

Today we are on day three. The paint we are using is artist paints for the caricatures. When we have a character over our faux, we first paint the area with a white primer. The primer dries quickly and our acrylics colors will be vibrant. Today we get to do some detail.



And we started on our black musical notes all around the room!

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Rock Band Mural Day 2

Today we are starting the jam room mural. Caroline was up all night putting together our ideas in photo shop. The caricatures the client chose are Michael Jackson, Cher, Steve Tyler, Jimmy Hendricks, Eddie Vanhalen, Elton John, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Freddie Mercury, and their cousin is on the drums. We are starting out by smoothing the textured wall with gypsum plaster. We are only smoothing the areas where the caricatures are going. We have found this extra step is so important. It helps when we are doing detail. We primed the entire wall, then let the primer dry. We painted the background by placing the caricatures and doing a faux finish for the background. The background will be black on the bottom and fade to different blues. We started with Marilyn Monroe, then Elvis, then Freddie Mercury, then Frank Sinatra.
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ROCK/BLUES/OLDIES BAND MURAL

Today we are commissioned to design a mural in a Jam room. This room is an area in the client’s home where they gather to play their instruments. The client is asking for eleven caricatures of people they choose. We suggested the wall mural have the caricatures playing instruments as back-up musicians! The room is twenty five feet wide and twelve feet tall. The caricature mural will be placed behind the raised stage. This is going to be a fun mural. Steve and I are excited. The clients have chosen the following musicians to be in the mural:
Michael Jackson, Cher, Steve Tyler, Jimmie Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Elton John, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Freddie Mercury and the Clients' cousin, Brian, as the drummer ( he's a real drummer the band
'80's Rewind'!)
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Mural Painting for Wineroom

I added alot of color and detail all over.

I'll let it dry a little before adding any more.

Caroline Woods

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Colorful Painting in Oil

I added more detail, highlight and depth

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