Reflections of Belmar

Summer is a busy time in Belmar. Over by the Boatworks we've got the new mud mural in progress, and near the corner of Main Street and 16th Ave we have a more traditional painted mural going. A steady stream of cars poured into town this morning to enjoy another day of this sunny summer weekend, so the sounds of automobile engines and honking horns were all around us as began painting. The basic design had been sketched out with markers on the wall last week, so it was just a matter of filling in colors based on a digital rendering. Unlike the last one I worked on, no scaffolding will be set up, so we were all up on ladders for at least part of the session. I'm the one in the red shirt in the above photo, one of a crew of four working today.

I was asked to work on various blue hues today, all representing water. The areas that I completed can be seen above and below- the deep blue ("Blue By You") and the aqua blue ("Aquarium").

By early afternoon we were ready to clean up and call it a day. The above photo (click on it to enlarge) shows our progress from today- pretty good for about 4 hours work. More scenes of the painting can be seen at the BAC blog. I'll post more here on any days that I am part of the process.