Updates coming soon!! So so busy, but it's coming along hour by hour. Next week I should be able to devote a couple full days. Hope it isn't 100+ degrees and doesn't rain.

So since no one has claimed the kitten, he has been adopted by my family and named Hazard. He is amazing.

Hours worked: 1 1/2
Total hours to date: 36

Getting dark

Worked on the coke oven cart and Mary Fuller Frazier. First time working until sundown.






Hours worked: 2 1/2
Total hours to date: 34 1/2

Morning Work

Didn't have much time to work. Had to leave before noon to head to Baltimore and apartment search.

Hours worked: 2
Total hours to date: 32

Painting

I haven't worked on the mural since Friday, mostly because it's been raining when I've had free time. I mixed a bunch of colors at home on Wednesday. Since I mixed more green it seemed logical to just finish the grass, which led into Washington. I used some of the flesh color I'd mixed because the portrait tone was really pink. The Flame was pretty easy to knock out with some of the gray and white. Mary Fuller Frazier is another story. There is something seriously wrong with the proportion of her head to her body that I need to fix.

And right now she resembles Edward Scissorhands.



:P to you too George Washington

Hours worked: 3
Total hours to date: 30
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Now playing: Jackie Greene - Grindstone

Mixing

It was too hot to work today. I mixed some colors though because I spent about an hour just mixing on Friday. I came up with four greens and some gradations of oranges. I think I'll need more gray eventually. I didn't get around to the browns or the light yellow/gold but I think what I have will get me started.

Hours worked: 2
Total hours to date: 27

Paint!

Hours worked: 3
Total hours to date: 25

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Now playing: Galactic - Heart of Steel

Lift Kitty

There was a kitten hiding under the lift.

We turned the lift around so would be able to access the controls that had been on the side facing the building and I started outlining the design in paint.

The paint order should be in on Friday so this weekend I can start blocking in color.



Hours worked: 4
Total hours to date: 22
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Now playing: The Avett Brothers - Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise

Chalking

It wasn't too hot today around noon since the lift was in shade. Made some corrections with the primer because it was getting a little messy with so many chalk lines. The lift again stopped working when I was near the top of the mural. It didn't need charged since it had been plugged in all night, so it didn't make any sense. I ended up leaving around 2:00 when it stopped working again.

Hours worked: 3
Total hours to date: 18
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Now playing: She & Him - I'm Gonna Make It Better

On to the Design

I thought it would be cooler if I went up in the morning, but I guess 8:30 wasn't early enough.
Made a lot of progress in just two hours, though Mary Fuller Frazier currently looks like a man.



Hours worked: 2
Total hours to date: 15

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Now playing: Talking Heads - The Big Country

Mural Warrior

Hope everyone had a good holiday weekend! I thought about writing "Happy 4th of July!" on the wall but I wasn't sure how it would be received, so an amorphous blob was all that graced the side of the building for a week. I boarded a train to Baltimore early on Wednesday, spent a few days visiting friends at MICA, then left for a weekend in DC. I came back early on Monday morning and went directly to the Mattress Factory for the first day of class. Needless to say at the end of the day, I was exhausted.


Went up for about an hour around 7:30 when it wasn't unbearably hot. Fixed the grid (or at least George Washington, the coke ovens still don't look right to me).
I was using blue chalk for the grid lines and black for the design, which I should have known would result in black chalk dust all over the place.
I'm just glad I made a little progress today, I didn't want to leave it for over a week. Hopefully I can get up early to put in some hours before heading off to Pittsburgh.



Hours worked: 1
Total hours to date: 13
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Now playing: April Smith and the Great Picture Show - Colors