More updating from projects past.

Last April we went to Binder Park Zoo again. Previously we had painted the Australian landscape mural in the Koala exhibit, and then a couple of years later painted many different murals in the then newly renovated Conservation Discovery Center.

If you want to go to the coolest place ever to see animals:

http://www.binderparkzoo.org/

The zoo re-opens April 22nd 2010.

They have an amazing (big) (nice walkways) (shuttle to get there) African exhibit. My favorite part is where you buy the biscuits for the giraffes and they amble on up to the elevated walkway where you can feed them. (I suppose alternatively you could eat the biscuit yourself, but feeding the giraffes is ever so much more fun).Their big long black tongues whip thru with happy greed, and their heads are like huge ungainly organic hockey sticks swaying & curving.

Oh my, such adjective overload!

In 2009 our mission was to jungle-up the new amphitheater.

Nice eh?

It was still a little chilly but we got a good start while the sunshine was there.

Big tall ladders.

By the end of the first day we had everything that would be muralled covered in one coat of background paint! Hurrah!

This is Chris, he works at the zoo (hence the uniform - which I think he even managed to keep the paint off)

He also got to spend a lot of time up the big tall ladders.

Then it started to look like some serious rain was coming thru. The staff at Binder came to our rescue with a humungous silver tarpaulin.

Again, nice! Silver is our tarp-color of choice as it doesn't distort the color of the light coming thru, too badly, which means once you take the thing off you don't have some horrendously weird color palette drying on the wall. People only tend to want horrendously weird when it is intentional.

So of course we now end the at-a-distance shots, as they all look like the above spaceship.

The high-impact pretties were up fairly fast, it was day two when the detail started.

And this is Sheena.

The detail takes more time, of course.

As you can see it's quite a tall wall!

Sheena, Michelle & I in the middle, Chris.

So at the end of Day Two we had all the nice details and bright colors, flowers, and interesting foliage done. No animals for this mural as it is a stage, and will have different stuff happening all the time.

Left side, right side.

So we were done! Two days!

All that was left was the dreaded pack-up / cleanup (the not so fun part of work), and zoom on out of there to let Michelle finish building the trees that frame the front entrance.

All is not over, though, as Michelle is sending us some more pictures & info about events at the Amphitheater last Summer, so soon you'll be able to see the entire, un-tarpaulined, finished project ... in action!