The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting." -Vincent Van Gogh

If I could marry an art form, I would marry painting (as long as I could have drawing on the side).

…and because of my love affair with painting, I was eager to take on the task of adding some spice to the Seattle Works office.  Over the past several days, I have been painting the Seattle Works logo on one of the walls in the office.  It was finally completed today and it is so purty.

THE PROCESS:

To begin, I printed out a picture of the Seattle Works logo and drew a 12-part grid to encompass the design.  Then, Chelsea assisted me with measuring out and centering a 6 ft. x 6 ft. grid on the wall (also with 12 parts) that was directly proportional to the grid I had previously drawn on the logo.  This took quite a few hours, but the grid is a very useful tool when attempting to achieve accuracy and proportionality. 

After the grid had been drawn on the wall (which is invisible in the picture above)

…wait for it…

It was PAINTING TIME!!!   

first with yellow and green dots.

 

…and then light gray dots.

 

Yours truly!

 …and then brown dots.

…and then blue dots.

…and then letters (which took forever aka a day and a half).

…and then the mural was done and it was purty. 

Oh, and this is my foot covered in paint. 

-Melody 

Comments

[Biju]

Wow, nice work! Hey maybe you guys can cross-link these over on Facebook, people need to see this!

[Maria Crossman]

These are great! Good work.