With all the foundation painting out of the way, we now start on Step 3 in the process: MIDDLE VALUES. This is one of my favorite steps, but the focus is not so much detail. This is when painting really gets fun! The focus is on getting all the MIDDLE VALUES to work together like a beautiful melodic song. When colors or a color is out of harmony with a particular melody created with paint, it looks muddy, chalky, raw, too warm or too cool, etc. It's just like hitting the wrong note on the piano which causes you to cringe! Bad color is Visual Vomit!
Once the color is worked out, then the rest is a matter of refining the color harmony, values from dark to light and adding details. After that, the Final Step: the last few minutes of applying Highlights, which are the Final Accents of the brightest colors.
MURAL SPAN LEFT END
We are now down to just the final accents!
FINISHED MURAL
Today we spent less than 2 hours finishing up by painting in the final accents, touching up and removing all the masking.
Novatek MC Print Mural
Concept Sketch for MC Print Mural
RUSSELL RICKS IN FRONT OF MC PRINT MURAL
MAY 4, 2011. Rajish, who is originally from India an employee of the company, photographed me in front of the MC Print Mural.
LEFT END, SECOND SECTION.
While working on this project, I faced right into this iron pillar many times. The problem is, I get to concentrating on what I am doing that I loose touch with what might be going on around me and it is in those moments keep smashing my face into the pillar
MOOSE, LEFT END
Once we removed the masking, i was very pleased with the end result.
CLOSE UP OF LEFT END MOOSE
This section has become my favorite part of the mural.
ROBERTS BENCH SECTION
With warmer highlights on the sunlit side of Roberts Bench and a few tweaks here and there, The employees were very pleased with the end result. They like it and that's what counts!
MOOSE AND RESERVOIR SECTION
It only took a few minor accents and less than 2 hours to finish up the project.
Close Up Of Moose
The neck and shoulder area look better.
Other Close Up
Swans in Lake Area
SWAN SECTION
Swans taking flight.
SWAN CLOSE UP I
I love to watch these graceful birds in flight.
SWANS II
Each swan is in a slightly diffenets stage in flght.
Mallard Duck
This duck replaces a larger one we had in then took out the other day.
TIMP RANGE FROM THE NORTH END
I love the shape of the mountains viewed in American Fork Canyon.
SWAN III
Aspens Right Side
I ran smack-dab and face-first into that iron beam support yesterday. Ouch, that hurt!
Mount Baldy Section
The aspen trees now have more form and are no longer flat and dull looking. Mount Baldy got a little more form and refined patches of snow, giving the granite form more of a 3D look.
Right End Section
Looks much better without the masking.
MURAL SPAN FROM RIGHT END
This is the first section everyone sees when they walk in.
Hike to Stewarts Falls
Took a fun hike to a great reward on the 4th of July. Stewarts Falls is in the Timpanogos Range Region.
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