If You Give Me A Blank Canvas...

O-man's good friend turned 4 a few weeks ago and for his birthday, his mom asked me to do a mural on his wall.  Well this boy loves gears, of all kinds.  Things that connect together and move around are his favorite.  So I took several of his gears and connected them in a layout I thought would look good in the space and a bunch of plastic lids and other various circular objects and got to work.

I started by tracing the lids and getting a basic plan for my design.  Since I always have a huge container or acrylic paint on hand, we picked out some colors and I started painting.

The boys played downstairs.  I got such a kick out of them checking on my progress... they weren't quite sure that I was actually making gears on his wall in the beginning stages.

I got such a kick out of doing this since my mom is an artist.  She does amazing watercolors, and it amused me to pretend I was as talented as her!

Hmmm, not quite there...

End of day one, they were pretty excited, it looked more like gears finally!

 

Here's the final result.  A few more layers of paint and outlining in black really brought it together.

Peace be with you,

 

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