mural thumbnails

Some of the rest of it.

I am delighted to report that I have nearly finished. The boys are still footless and all sorts of bits and pieces are not quite as they should be, but soon they won't be (or will be, as they should be). If you screw up your eyes and imagine that that enormous in-the-way telly isn't there, you will see a puppy behind it.
I'll report back with my favourite bits when I've finished completely.

Ben and Tom at the Seaside.

I've been painting like billy-ho and feeling too tired most evenings to post up my progress, but here I am at last and Ben and Tom now look like this...
I'm having trouble with their feet, and Tom's stance (lefthand figure) took a while to get right. I'm still not happy with his skin tone, but there are bigger things to get right before I fiddle about with that.

The whole mural is quite a mad one. There is a lot more going on than Ben and Tom at the seaside. There are to be skiers and cricketers and Russian onion-dome churches, French chateaux, the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, a cracked globe like a Faberge egg, champagne, golf clubs, Jamon Serrano (that's Parma Ham to you and I), a tarte aux framboises and a leonberger puppy. It's rather a challenge.

Ben and Tom at the Seaside

My year has started with a mural commission...