I finishes this afternoon. This is kind of the round about photo montage. I think you can get the idea- the frog was a request by the three year old girl who lives there. Next, the mom is going to put silk cushions and pillows all over the floor, hang sconces from the walls, and drape fuchsia and violet curtains in the “windows”. The room is actually quite small- about 7′ square.

Pretty cool for hide-out for a bunch of kids!

By the way, in case you can’t tell from the pictures (and I’m sure you can), this room is underground, there are no actual windows and even the wall are really just plain white walls. I painted each brick and beam in- none of it is real. I also filled the “sky” with real constellations and printed the kids names in Egytian cartouches on the wall;  they get to solve the puzzle of what each one says. He he he.

No, not for me, sillies.

My good friend Bek had a lovely baby girl today. All is well and mama and baby appear to be doing well and getting acquainted. Congratulations to their family on this happy, happy day!

All this week I’m working on a mural in a friend’s wine-cellar. Well, it was a wine cellar when they bought the house, now it’s a play-cave for her children. It’s cool because it’s behind two doors in her basement, and the last doorway is pointed at the top, like the Arabian nights. Soooooo….

My theme for the mural is The Desert. I’ve painted the walls like an old stone building, and the sun setting outside the windows. You can see silhouettes of palm trees, and the pyramids are in the distance. I found a diagram of how the stars look in the sky in that area of the world, and am painting the constellations in the sky. She’s going to have cushions made in deep purples and blues and it’s going to be soooo cool.

There will be pictures when I’m done- for now, I gotta run- day three, and I’m most of the way almost past halfway.