I have the honor of working on the National Jewish Health playroom mural. I'll be working in partnship with Starlight Children's Foundation. You can follow along here to see the progress from sketching to final installation!
This is the current room. It already has some imagery in it, but the staff at National Jewish Health is ready for a change. I started the project by visiting the hospital, chatting with the staff, learning about the kids that play in the room, and taking some measurements.
Next, I did a rough sketch of my idea for the wall and placed it on top of the pictures I took to give the hospital an idea of what it would like like in the end. There's a lot going on in the illustration, including some interactive components with magnets on magnetic paint.
Working on the details of the bear as well as redrawing and detailing the squirrel in the tree. The sun will eventually be a rotating wooden piece, but I've put it in there for placement.
Here's a closeup of some of the details of the squirrel. I'm trying to only use outlines where necessary, which is a new approach for me.
Starting to make some progress on the trees and repositioned the sun to the center. The sun will (hopefully) be an interactive wooden piece that I'll be building in the coming weeks.
I had an idea for giving credit to the people that are helping with the project - carve them into the tree! The Starlight Children's Foundation "star" will hopefully be a laser cut wooden piece that we'll attach.
As I flesh out the artwork, I'm redoing the animal characters one at a time to make them look better. Here's the pogression I went through in creating the fox.
One snowy day, my friend John and I worked on the sun, which had sun rays that you can rotate!
Final illustrations are complete. Now time to send different parts off to vinyl printers and 3D printers!
I picked up the fox and the bear today from BSC Signs. They came out great! About a half an inch thick, they will be layed on top of the vinyl prints on the wall.
UPDATE: The contract with National Jewish Health fell through and I'm now seeking a home for this piece! Wish me luck!
