Unlike Madeline's mural, these images are all night themed. So I painted in the background sky shades of dark blue and black. I will add clouds on top of this, then later stars and other stuff that is still to be determined. The rest of the mural will look like map drawings on the wall. The overall theme is star charts so I plan to select specific constellations to put up.

The sign that I am committed to this project: the work table is set up!. Already being filled with stuff, I have my collection of images and paint supplies. Very important to leave a little bit of room left for a cup of coffee.

The plan is to mimic the arches in Madeline's room but not devote the whole wall to them. I decided that the perspective in this room is going to be from the boat floating out on the sea in Maddie's room. These windows are the portholes on the boat and we will be looking up at the castle. First step is to tape off the windows before painting in the background.

A friend came over and helped me complete the wall texturing. I used the same technique as Madeline's room but made the colors a shade lighter. This room is smaller so I wanted to keep the color light. Base coat is a warm beige and top coats are antique white and a 50/50 mix of the beige with the white. I still need to paint the trim in the room and then I will be ready to start the mural work.

I hope to get some stuff sketched out onto the walls next week. I checked out a whole stack-load of books about constellations from the library and now I need to piece together the images I want on the walls.