The Great Mural Project-Land Ho!
Landmasses:
This is where I opted to use house paint instead of acrylic paint. I definitely saved money but it was way harder to use house paint here. I believe that acrylic paint would have made it more luminous and I wouldn’t have had to recover the drips from the blue ocean. But I made it work anyways. I went for a stylized landmass that referenced the San Juan Islands (one of my favorite parts of this world).
Lessons Learned: 1) If you can afford it use acrylic paint… it’s way way easier! You won’t have the drips I did off the landmass area. 2) I wouldn’t use expensive brushes because the house paint will trash the brushes but the professional brushes definitely made a difference in the ease of painting my landmasses. That being said I found some fabulous brushes at Daniel Smith on sale that were fabulous. They were cheap but similar to brushes designed for use by a professional artist.
Note: on this image you can see the white chalk outlines of what else I was going to add. This was my secondary sketch of the mountain area. I used white charcoal because it wiped off with a damp cloth!
Mountains:
When I planned this I decided to have a line of mountains that would make the viewer either think of the Olymipic Mountains or the Cascade Mountains. I had a great time painting these mountains and definitely went overboard. When I was done I realized that I created a field of mountains more reminiscent of a Glacial field than a mountain range… whoops!
