{"id":1316,"date":"2014-10-25T16:58:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T16:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathrynhockey.com\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2014-10-25T16:58:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T16:58:23","slug":"leaves-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathrynhockey.com\/wp\/leaves-mural\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaves Mural"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I recently finished painting one of my plane tree patterns on a wall\u00a0plastered with mud\u00a0in my friends’ straw bale house.<\/p>\n

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\"leaves,<\/a><\/p>\n

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Simple lines in\u00a0white emulsion paint are very effective on the beautifully coloured and textured mud, which still has straw poking through it in some places<\/p>\n

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This is the digital version of the design, you can see\u00a0its evolution\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<\/a>one of my previous posts<\/p>\n

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About seven years ago\u00a0I painted the mural below in the same house, also on a wall plastered with mud, it was then visible in the main living space.<\/p>\n

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They’ve since built the new internal mud plastered wall to create another room for their expanded family so the first mural is hidden inside the new bedroom.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed the whole experience of painting in white on mud so much (and I’m also a bit vain and missed seeing my art work from the living room) so it was lucky that my friends happily agreed to my proposal to paint a mural on the new wall and we settled on a theme of leaves.<\/p>\n

This is the bare mud wall<\/p>\n

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I made this plan for the mural in Photoshop, using the cut out, inverted line work of my original pattern<\/p>\n

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I then ‘Photoshopped’ it to the photograph of the\u00a0bare wall \u00a0to check on the layout before transferring the design to the wall<\/p>\n

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I started by projecting the image onto the wall and drawing the outline in white pencil but ran into technical difficulties with the electrical equipment. I had to resort to plan B which meant tracing the pattern using chalk on the reverse surface of a printed template and then penciling over the chalk lines, which was far more messy and time consuming but ultimately effective.<\/p>\n

This is a detail of the pencil drawing<\/p>\n

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Here is the partially completed mural<\/p>\n

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and a head on view of the completed mural without the added domestic decoration<\/p>\n

\"leaves,<\/a><\/p>\n

This was a really enjoyable project, completed in many short sessions over a period of several months, combined with delicious lunch visits to my lovely friends.<\/p>\n

It also fulfilled my ambition to complete a painted version of one of my digitally designed patterns on a real life wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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