The WALL .. My Forest!

My dream, My Wall! I now have brought the outside into my basement making it a nice place to be! Come with me a view the journey of painting my 'wall'. I hope you enjoy it!

I started on a empty canvas, a 22 foot long concrete block wall. Had a take a grinder to it to knock off lumps. Still left it pretty rough! Oh and UGLY!

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Painted! Starting to add the ground.
I used Bear Primer and Paint all in one. The background is a creamy beigh-yellow. There are lighter areas (white washed with white) which the camera does not pick up.
The earth paint colors are two different browns. I blended the earth into wet background. This made many different browns!








Placing the front trees. This is the challenge! Make sure it is off center....you don't want one of your focal points centered! Make this the darkest tree!










Now trump through the woods for three hours with your brother because you both have this crazy idea of a real (dead) tree in corner!
This is my hubby in picture not my brother!
Drag it (by pickup truck) home and... OMG will it fit though the door!!!??? With lots of twisting and turning it did... barely!

Cut to fit!

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Witching hour!

Can you believe that May is coming to a end! It's only 5 months to Halloween and Samhain!
WOW! How time does fly! Getting my broom ready!!! LOL!
To get a head start on my favorite Holiday, and I hope your too. Please come visit (on Ebay) some fantastic Halloween Artists. Search SEHA ( Society of Eclectic Halloween Artist) and HA31 (A Gathering of Halloween Artists)! We are all here and celebrating Halloween all year!

Now I must get outside! So many things to do! The sun is shining! And it's going to be hot out soon....too hot to work! I like warm but I don't not like to get hot! I need to lay some bricks....or get ready to lay them. When it gets too hot I'll grab myself a nice tall glass of lemon ade (koolaid) and sit on the back deck with my outdoor kitties and swing, talk to my fish and tell myself how I need to get my butt inside and paint!

Oh my! I need to get these Morning glories planted....byeeeeeeeeeeeee!