Here are some pictures from the first two days of actually putting paint on the vertical blind “canvas” itself, after a week plus of prep.
city mural sky painting
I painted the sky almost entirely with my Iwata spray guns and a lot of careful masking-- its always *really* gratifying to pull the masking away and see a painted finish running clean to its edges!
city mural sky painting detail
After the skyline gets detailed, I put the paper drawings back down to transfer the rest of the image:
city mural drawings down a second time
The cityscape develops one piece at a time-- the drawings are cut into five or six pieces for manageability.
cityscape mural drawing
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