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  CHKD Mural
  This is a large 50'x17' ceiling mural I painted for a children's hospital

  
  
  

  Murals for a Dentist Office:
  A set of three murals for a dentist's office including a 25' circular ceiling mural.

  
  
  

  Murals for a Hospital in Las Vegas:
  Murals and other work for a new children's wing in a Las Vegas hospital.

  
  
  

  Mural for a Library:
  This is a mural for a children's reading area in a local libary in Nebraska.

  
  
  

  Mural for a Movie Theatre:
  Here's a fun 8'x10' mural I painted for a movie theatre.

  
  
  
  

  Residential Mural in St Maarten:
  This is a scenic mural painted in a condo in St Maarten.

  
  
  
  

  Exterior Mural:
  I painted 3 wood panels and installed them outside of a hardware store.

  
  
  

  Kids' Bedroom Murals:
  Two murals painted for kid's bedrooms with variations on a beach theme.

  
  
  

LIBRARY MURAL IN DESHLER NEBRASKA

I was commissioned to paint a mural for a new library as it was being built in a local community. The area was a curved reading alcove designed as a kids' space. After looking at the space and the usage, I came up with a fun design I called "Storytime".

Storytime tells the story of a bear reading a book to a gathering of woodland animals. I went with a very different style from how I would usually paint and wanted an 'old school story book' look to the mural.

The panels are the side (bear and tree) were painted in the studio on canvas and then installed on site.

The characters in the alcove were painted on site. I spent some time to try to smooth out the walls a little as the surface was not a true curve. Here is a 'flattened' view of the curved surface.

The mural made a perfect background to the ribbon cutting ceremony.

One of the keys to my design was to keep most of the characters at 'kid level' I envisioned them sitting on the steps while reading and surrounded by their woodland friends. After the dedication I was able to see how well this works.

In the end a small Nebraska town has a wonderful new library to build their community around. I was very happy to be a small part of it and I met some wonderful people while working on this project.

Check out my blog page for this project so you can see all of the in progress photos and videos - and even download a coloring book with the mural characters!

My thanks go out to Jamie Luttrell for her assistance with this mural and to Art Whitton for continuing to photograph my artwork.

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