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