Stanley William Moore II: artist

This is a progression of a mural I recently finished (mostly, anyway).

This is my first serious mural, so the process was fairly new to me.

Other than the people, nothing in this is an exact copy of anything, and the whole painting (other than the people) is entirely fictional.   It was requested that I paint two Victorian style figures in the grass, so my brother and his partner were kind enough to pose for some reference shots.

I started with a rough sketch, had it approved, made my rectangle where the painting was going to be, and copied my sketch onto the wall.  I would say that centering and making a perfect 8×15′ rectangle was the hardest part of the entire thing.

As for paint, I went to Lowe’s and picked out the most saturated swatches I could find for blue, green, brown, yellow, and red.  I went with Valspar Interior Eggshell for all of the colors.  Using those paints as a base, I mixed over 50 different colors to work with.

I’m going to go back to finish it up (border, mostly) at some point, but right now it is pretty much done.