PRIMING

today myself and our VineArts director began working on our next sanctuary backdrop. we have 2 sets of canvas panels (3 panels each set) which form a triptic mural painting that hangs behind the main stage. each panel is 12ft x 18ft. this is the 3rd mural backdrop we've worked on in little over a years' time. so in order to paint this one we needed to prime over one of the mural paintings in order to create a new one.

the panels are so large that we lay them out on the floor in a huge garage to paint on them. that's a photo of me standing on one of the canvas panels pouring primer onto it with a ladel. then we used long handled rollers to spread the primer to cover the canvas.

you may be gasping thinking about us painting over such a huge and memorable painting (but we did take lots of photos of it before we ruined it). this is somewhat of a normal thing for artists to do...to paint over other paintings. it was a little sad to cover over the painting underneath (see the post "RE:FORM")...but we didn't mourn too long...it was great fun spreading the primer all over it. and now we have 3 huge blank canvases to create something new and exciting on for the congregation.

and currently the 2nd backdrop mural painting is still hanging in the sanctuary (see the post "Painting the Heart of David") and will continue to hang until this new one is ready to go up (as it will coincide with an upcoming sermon series for the church).

we'll be painting any chance we get over the next few weeks...this new backdrop will be hung up by June sometime. i'll try to post updates for you as the new painting comes to life.