Mural painted on main door

We surprise even ourselves. Didn't think we would pull it off so soon after deciding to do the mural. We knew if we didn't get off our butts to do this ASAP, we would never get down to doing it at all, so here it is
......the mural we painted on our main door.
We're probably the only crazy ones doing this within the radius of several HDB estates but we don't care.....we Lurrrve it! Don't you???

Copyright 2008. All rights reserved, Cartoon Lagoon. Artwork by FCY.
No photos, pictures or artwork of this image may be reproduced without the written consent of Cartoon Lagoon and FCY.

By the way, we know that by doing this, we risk getting someone else's loan shark doing his O$P$ artwork on our door but we're willing to take the chance and if some nuthead neighbour is going to complain (like maybe the colours give them a headache or the picture scares their kids), then I'm seeing my MP (whoever he or she is!). I wanna cormprain! Cormprain!

It took 4 steps to complete this mural:

1) Pencil and paper draft (20 minutes).

2) Scanned and outline in 'Paint' using mouse (30 minutes. I know, velly velly basic. I dun have no fancy Paintshop programmes oki? Actually, this step may be skipped - I was only trying to fill up with colours after scanning but my basic Paint programme doesn't allow it becos I hadn't created the first draft with it).

3) Outline in light coloured paint on door (30 minutes).

4) Paint non-stop (8 hours).

Started and finished this last Sunday 8th June 2008 (couldn't move a muscle after that).
Note to self: Do not attempt to finish another mural on the same day!

Touched up a little yesterday night again cos the flooring people made some scratches here and there. Probably needs a coat of varnish soon.

This is what the pencil and paper draft looked like after I outlined with the mouse using the FOC Paint programme:

BTW, if you noticed that cockerel clock by the door, it came all off white except for the cockerel in the centre. Mike and I spent some time painting the top cockerel and the spiral parts last Saturday night. Oh, before that, Mike had to get out the clock hand mechanism and replace it with another from one of our old wall clocks becos it wasn't working. We could have gone back to the store to exchange the clock but we were keen to get started on the painting of the cockerel so we decided to replace the mechanism instead. Fortunately, it worked. (Mike's a great handyman!) It's a two sided clock. Pretty unusual.

We're taking a short break from the business, renovation and everyday madness for a few days by driving up North tomorrow or maybe heading South instead; we dunno. Wherever life takes us.

Take care!

Fiona