Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Some of my first murals

(complete wall) Fire Island light house mural in a bedroom
"door" I painted on the wall at the end of the hall
closet door painted to look like a bookcase



When we moved into our house on Long Island almost 20 years ago, I hated the walls and that helped motivate me to try murals. I figured, so what if I don't like it and have to paint over it? I quickly got over the fear of painting on walls and the "what if I don't like it?" stress.

We bought a new house a few years ago and all I could think of was how was I going to deal with all the wall space! I hung up my paintings right away without even getting all the furniture in the right places. I still had those walls that needed something more. With this new house with its freshly painted walls, I relapsed into my old thinking about painting something I might not be happy with. I got over it, as you can see from my Monday post.

I will be posting more of my newer mural photos soon, but today I am going to share some of my first murals from my house on Long Island.


Thanks for looking!
Sheryl

2 comments:

  1. They're all lovely. My fave is the bookcase.
    So tell me, what paint did you use to paint these with?

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  2. Just regular acrylics- sometimes I use latex as a base coat if I have a background of one color. Thanks, Pat- I miss that bookcase- left it when we moved!

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