golf courses

And a Mural of Augusta National for a client. Here's a before shot and now a middle shot and then a tadah!
Here's the here's how...
First I spend a bit of time researching golf courses and explaining the aspects of a good mural to a client. The final shot had to have a focal point. It neded color and something to help with the perspective. Many golf course pictures are just alot of green. We reviewed the local course and they just didn't hold as much interest as this very famous one.


So we looked at a tone of pictures and decided on the 12th hole. I put a couple veiws up on a transparency with a projector so they could see what a final version may look like. The projector is a great tool to get scale and proportion down easily.

I sketch in the main landmarks in this case the sand pits, the bridges and the main trees. I go over the entire sketch with raw umber to makesure I don't loose any important lines during the painting process. I use artist grade acrlyics and a variety of brushes.


I then blocked in the main colors and started giving depth to the background by softly laying in glazes and texture. Colors used are; raw umber, yellow ocher, raw sienna, burnt umber and burnt sienna, ultramarine blue and a bit of cerulean blue in the sky. My lightening agent is titan buff.

Next is adding in the water which is a mixture of raw umber, ultramarine blue and rawumber with varing amount of raw sienna. It needed to reflect the background behind it.

I then add in my shadows and highlights and all of a sudden it pops. I haven't gotten pictures of the finished project yet. The clients love it. Now on to their dining room a three color metallic plaster and a specialty cabinet finish for the built in cabinets.