Murals

Hi guys! It's been a while since my last blog, so here's a new one!

When I started painting for many years ago, never in my wildest dreams I would have thought that I would still be painting on commission right now. Most of all I would never have thought that I would be doing murals, I mean, come on! Who would let ME paint on their wall? At least that was probably what my answer would have been if you asked me about that back then.

But here I am! Painting walls! And I'm actually getting used to the idea of it. The first ever mural I did, I was so scared of ruining a perfectly fine wall, what if the customer didn't like it or what if the paint just dropped of the wall, or what if I spilled my paint all over the floor, or what if....... there were so many "what ifs". Actually all those what ifs weren't necesarry and the mural turned out just as the customer wanted it to be. After that I did some more murals, but never did I paint a mural as big as I just finished this week at Ørum Skole. It's a mural covering a hallway where the toilets for the smallest kids are. The school director gave me some kind of free hand, they would love to have Danish nature but other than that I could paint whatever I would like. Now I'm in the luxurious position that my kids are students at Ørum Skole (in another part of the building where the bigger kids are) and my daughter helped me with making a plan for this hallway. I figured it should be a Danish forest with forest animals, all somewhat realistic but still childish/cartoonish. My daughter thought it would be great to make a day and a night side to the forest and that´s how the plan for the mural was made.

After making the plan, I´ve been painting on and off on this mural, that's the luxury of knowing the school and director, they gave me the possibility to paint whenever I had time. So I have been painting while my own kids were at school, so I could bring them to and take them home from school when they were finished. Since it is a bit of a narrow hallway, it was somewhat tricky to paint sometimes with kids running around and asking you what you were doing every 2 minutes, but it also was really fun to see the kids being really happy when they were the first to discover a newly painted animal.

The great thing is that a teacher of another school did see my project and I have to do another mural at a school. So I'm not quiet done yet!

Of course you will as usual be able to follow the progress from my next painting/mural on my facebook site. So stay tuned.

Greetings Katinka