Ideas for Murals

Some people have trouble deciding WHAT to have me paint in their home. I thought about it and came up with a list of various topics that be used for murals and here are some of them. Click on it to make it larger for viewing:

Here's a another sketch I came up with. I don't know where these ideas come from - I just try to see something in the graphite and then work to bring it out. I guess the interest in scary images comes from my childhood. I always loved scary movies and would try to draw the covers of horror magazines like "Creepy" and "Famous Monsters of Hollywood." Artists like Boris Vallejo and Frank Frazetta are still my idols.

Soon I will be taking some of these sketches and use the computer to colorize them.

Mural in Progress - "Tropical Beach Island"

Here's a photo of a mural in progress. I'm painting this tropical beach scene on the walls of our bathroom. The real challenge here will be trying to photograph it when it's finished. It will eventually cover all the walls and the ceiling in the bathroom although lots of the wall space is taken up by shower stall, storage unit, sink and mirror, etc.. I will post photos as it develops.

For this mural, I really don't have it all planned out ahead of time (as I would have to do for a client) and enjoy the freedom to create as I go.