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I said I had another mural to do, and it's finally nearing completion. I've spent about 80 hours at this point, and I'm getting really excited to be done.

16' x 9' (about 5 m x 3 m), done in Acrylic with sponge brushes on rough exterior brick.

A couple of things about this.
1. I walked around the elementary school in question, taking candid snapshots of the students involved in their various activities, and then composed the overall image from those photos.
2. When I say the exterior brick is rough, I mean "rough." Even with multiple (6+) thick coats of primer, I'm working over divots that are between a quarter-inch and half-inch deep in many places. Getting any kind of small detail on such a surface is beyond the scope of this project, but I'm managing to get good, clear definition on faces that are as large as my hand. At the end of the school year, many students who passed by while I was working were able to recognize themselves.
3. Given that these aren't my children, I won't be posting any detailed closeups of the finished work without parental permission, and considering the number of children on the thing, I won't be seeking that parental permission, either...
4. Now that I look at it, I can see that I have about 10-12 hours of work left. The dark-skinned girl in the orange shirt in the lower-right is pretty much finished, but it'll take me a few more passes over most of the other figures to get them to that point.

Enjoy!

Description
I said I had another mural to do, and it's finally nearing completion. I've spent about 80 hours at this point, and I'm getting really excited to be done.

16' x 9' (about 5 m x 3 m), done in Acrylic with sponge brushes on rough exterior brick.

A couple of things about this.
1. I walked around the elementary school in question, taking candid snapshots of the students involved in their various activities, and then composed the overall image from those photos.
2. When I say the exterior brick is rough, I mean "rough." Even with multiple (6+) thick coats of primer, I'm working over divots that are between a quarter-inch and half-inch deep in many places. Getting any kind of small detail on such a surface is beyond the scope of this project, but I'm managing to get good, clear definition on faces that are as large as my hand. At the end of the school year, many students who passed by while I was working were able to recognize themselves.
3. Given that these aren't my children, I won't be posting any detailed closeups of the finished work without parental permission, and considering the number of children on the thing, I won't be seeking that parental permission, either...
4. Now that I look at it, I can see that I have about 10-12 hours of work left. The dark-skinned girl in the orange shirt in the lower-right is pretty much finished, but it'll take me a few more passes over most of the other figures to get them to that point.

Enjoy!