Mountain Mural Cubby

I really need to paint more.
It's like an addiction. If I don't get a good fix, I haphazardly start throwing a brush around when there is a two minute time span in the day...and largely regretting the results.

I loved this Ron Swanson project and was wondering a good place to paint it https://ace_hotel_dev.s3.amazonaws.com/images/PDX-RMS_Standard_front_green_owl_art_20130710_1722.png .
It looks amazing in this boy's nursery http://www.willscasa.com/2014/06/mountain-mural-the-makings-of-a-ron-swanson-nursery/#_a5y_p=1892266
Our cute play kitchen cubby (as sweet as it is) was making me cringe with it's colours that clash with the adjacent room.
So much brightness with Swedish green and Angel Fern!
With this mountain mural, I could entertain the idea of bringing in some of the hunter green I love in other rooms of the house, and subdue the brightness a bit with a chalkboard background.

So I went to work one afternoon, mapping out the mountains with painters tape.
The painting itself was easy. Applying the painters tape was not.

But once I roughed in all the area's, fine detail could be applied to the edges to give the mountains their sharp peaks.

Fox Print

Polystyrene Put to Use

Ahhh. 

Art.

It's been a while since I got to creating something.

My eldest daughter and I have started experimenting with print-making, so I took advantage of this time, to get my own creative energy flowing.

We had been sketching on mural paper taped to the floor. 

I often leave this out for a few days and little sketches are added turning it into a large brainstorm. 

I was using shapes to make creatures, when I designed a Fox out of triangles. 

Later in the day, when we were testing out polystyrene for print-making, I etched the Fox.

We used an Olive sampler tub of paint from Home Depot, meant to test or touch up wall colour.
I placed the print in the center of large card stock, the results looking decent enough to frame.