Still life with Blueberry Mini Pie and Scissor Lift.  (and yes, that is black caboose paint on my hands…)

Then I said “sure, I can paint a mural

on a corrugated wall, no problem!”

  Howdy!  It was another hot week on the mural wall, but I am super motivated because things are starting to take shape.  It seemed like a long time getting the prep and primer coats done, plotting out points for positioning of major “landmarks”, and laying in the backgrounds of the mountains, rolling foothills and foreground.  But now things are getting exciting – the Dodd Farm Barn is finished, as is the split rail fence in the foreground, the tipi village (including the pie-smell!), the Niwot flag is waving above Haystack mountain, Left hand creek is flowing through the hillside and I have re-designed the lower portion of the creek to come into a small waterfall, and I will be painting the Rubber Duck in the creek, since the duck race benefit fundraiser is such a significant event for our annual Niwot Nostalgia Days.  I love to include new, personalized ideas as the mural evolves.  I have the original design sketch and the mural will be very much based on that, but clever, small details keep coming up that make the design so fun, and even more special and unique to our sweet town.

My project for this week is the caboose.  It’s huge!!  It is a depiction of the Niwot historic Caboose (you can climb on the real thing at our Whistle Stop Park on Murray and First Street) entering a tunnel on the east side of the building, and then there is a steam engine emerging from the tunnel on the far right side of the mural, next to the left-handed prairie dog.  This 20’ tall caboose is an extra challenge because it involves a lot of horizontal lines and the corrugation makes it impossible to paint a straight line with anything other than a small, pointed, soft bristle art brush.  I do not heart corrugation.

But I do heart you!!  Thank you for reading this journal, for coming out and saying howdy, for honking when you drive by on Hwy 119, for asking if it’s hot enough out for me (umm, yes.  yes it is…), and  for supporting local art and artists.  You are the reason I am painting this mural, and you are the reason I get to do what I love to do.  So thanks for being you.  xoxoxo

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