Today is the first day of repainting the Kurri Bullock Mural.The mural is 10 years old and considering it gets the strong western sun has lasted well.It has faded a lot.
I'll be taking photos each day to show you the progress. First time around it took 105hrs painting on the wall + prep time. Hopefully this time will be quicker as I already have the faded image to paint over but I want to bring it back to it's former glory.
Here I am mixing paints ready. I'm using a hand mixer although you can't see it in this photo.
Here I am mixing paints ready. I'm using a hand mixer although you can't see it in this photo.
The basic painting palette mixed as close as possible.
I get the paint from the 4ltre cans ( good quality ext housepaint) and put it in smaller cans . Try and match my usual painting palette which is hard as they don't make some of the vivid colours I usually use. I mix all the colours I need from a smaller palette of colours.
So far I've roughly mixed the colours I want for the front bullock and will modify these to do the rear ones. They need to be adjusted so they are less bright / bluer so the bullock team will seem to recede.
These
are tubs from the last few murals I've created . I keep them in case a
mural need retouching but they can dry out over time so I'm reusing what
I can for this mural.
I started to mix them in the garage as there is more space but the lighting wasn't very good and it isn't air conditioned. I moved into the studio although it's pretty cramped in here!
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