Painting

I always dreamed of painting fun murals on my kids walls someday, and now that I spend a lot of time at home, I finally had the time to get started. A very talented friend of mine came over one night, and we got started on painting some fun murals on Z's wall.

I fired up the tracing machine and we got Buzz Lightyear battling Emperor Zurg sketched out on the wall near his bookcase. My friend spent hours painting and fine tuning him, and this is the result! He looks SPECTACULAR!!

I got started on Emperor Zurg, after a few quick glances at my friend's incredible work, I decided to let her finish him, and I moved on to another wall.

I originally wanted the whole theme of the bedroom to be cowboys, and although we strayed a little bit with Buzz and Zurg, I knew I wanted something extra special above his crib. I found the PERFECT image in an old coloring book, and with help from the tracing machine, got it up on the wall.

Whenever I had the time or patience I would get to work and do little bits at a time. Standing for long periods of time was taking it's toll on my back, so work was very slow.

By New Years, Jesse and Woody were ironically starting to look like Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper, and all I wanted was to get this thing done.

 Weeks later, I pulled a very late night and finally got it done! I had considered doing fun paintings like this all around his room, but I think I'm done. That is... unless I can convince my friend (who lives a lifetime away and is planning a wedding and moving) to do a couple more. Seriously... she's amazing and could make a fortune doing this professionally.

I'm so proud of this! I hope he doesn't grow up hating Toy Story...