When I should be thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas, I get a call from my old boss asking me to draw and paint kid-friendly murals in their visitation rooms. It's for kids. How could I say no?
Since I am still working, I needed to find simple scenes others could paint. After searching the Internet 'til all hours of the night, I found scenes easy enough for novice or experienced painters and sketched them out for approval.
For the first room I drew huge simplistic trees with flowers and butterflies. A whole team of volunteers showed up to paint the walls. I'm not the only soft touch with a soft spot for kids. 😉
Each of the second room's walls featured a different type of landscape. One wall featured a city with a lake nearby, another wall had mountains, and another had a forest scene. A road with cars and trucks tied the scene together. This was mainly the room I painted in. Since most of the scenes were angular, I used painter's tape to tape off the scenes, then used sponges to add paint.
I never got to see the rooms finished because I wasn't there the final week, but I've been promised pictures. Hopefully the children that use these rooms will find them cheery and bright.
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