Work · 02

Desert

Layered bands across a living room wall, masked and then blended until the joins disappear.

The wall had to recede rather than announce itself. It sits behind the seating and works as a background, so the palette stays close to the plaster it is painted on. A few crisp dark lines cut across the soft bands to stop the whole thing going vague.

Those lines are the only hard edges anywhere on the wall.

Medium: Soft pigment, blended
Surface: Plaster, painted
Scope: One living room wall
Finish: Matt, sealed

The finished wall

The finished layered landscape mural behind a green velvet sofa in daylight — In the room, with the furniture in place.

The mural continuing behind the dining table — It carries on behind the dining end of the room.

The mural seen close, with the dark line at eye level — The dark lines sit at eye level when you are seated.

A wider view of the finished living room — The wall from the other side of the room.

How it was made

The grey landscape bands blended, before the dark lines go in — Bands blended, before the dark lines.

Painter masking the landscape bands with tape — Each band masked, filled, then blended back.

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