I can start at day 2 because you can see what we did on the first day--all day--we painted SKY. We're working on nearly 25 feet by 10 feet of a wall. The wall was prepped and primed for us--and next time I'd prefer NO TEXTURE--what was I thinking? Anyhoo--Betty put a sketch of our ideas on 3 transparencies and we projected them one by one on the wall to decide where to tape off our horizon. We discovered that no matter how long your extension cord is, it's best not to move the projector with it on because the bulb burned out from the vibration of the movement. That set us back in time because then we ran around looking for replacement bulbs but this projector has been in storage for several years and the no one carries the bulb we need. As we put the word out for a more modern one, we then had access to 3 projectors!
It took us all day of mixing paint and glaze and after trying a roller, sponges, and cheesecloth we figured out what we liked best was to put a few colors on and smear it with our hands in rubber gloves. The result was awesome to us, stuff blended, there were no brushmarks or streaks. Wherever we thought the color was too yuky (really artistic term) we would strategically place a bank of fluffy clouds!
So, for day 2, we traced some of the outlines using the projector, and then began basing in our large portions of color. Betty put in the first layer of sand and started outlining the large leaves in the foreground to the left of the mural.
