Mural at HOPE International Office

Today I got to break out the paint brushes again and help out HOPE International by painting a scripture verse at the entrance of their corporate offices. I think it turned out pretty cool! If you've never heard of HOPE before, I highly suggest checking them out. It's an amazing Christian faith-based, non-profit organization focused on alleviating physical and spiritual poverty through microenterprise development.

From their website:
HOPE practices a holistic approach to poverty alleviation. Microcredit and basic business training enable individuals to build businesses and break free from physical poverty. Clients find that their increased income enables them to provide more nutritious and regular meals as well as improved housing and education for their children. But HOPE isn't only concerned with physical poverty. Christ-following loan officers share the hope of the Gospel in the context of relationships, ministering to spiritual poverty as well.

Painting a Wall Mural

I stumbled upon this video today as I was researching whether or not to use acrylic paint or latex house paint for a mural I'm bidding out. If anyone has an opinion on what you prefer, I'd love to hear it. I've used both and know of pros and cons to either, but to bid out a job with acrylic is much more expensive than latex, so I'm stumped.

Anyway, enjoy the video! Hopefully it'll inspire some of you to finally do something with that ugly white wall in your home!

Mural Project - Finished

What a great experience this last week was for me. I was so happy to find a project that allowed me to paint, and took advantage of every second I had to push myself with painting realistic subject manner, as well as pushed others to paint who had never done so before. Take a look at my Flickr page for more photos.

Another Mural Project

I have been blessed tremendously this week with the best job ever on a work-week trip. Right now, I'm writing from Espanola, New Mexico where I'm on a missions trip working with the McCurdy school doing maintenance and upkeep of their building. . . well, everyone else is doing that sort of thing. I happened to ask the project manager if there was a mural that needed to be painted, in a joking manner, and he surprisingly said that he had a mural that needed to be restored. My eyes lit up like crazy and soon I was on my way to an art store in Santa Fe for supplies.

Here's what the "before" picture looks like. Stay tuned for the "after" shot!

Mural Project

The last few weeks I've been working on a mural for my church's children's area. It's an outdoor scene of Eric Carle's characters, and is coming along pretty well. Luckily I have a couple of very talented artists helping me with it in order to get it done by the coming due date. Stay tuned for pictures of the finished product! Here are a couple of "in progress" picts.