Children's equestrian mural
The clients commissioned us to paint a mural of
a girl and her two brothers on horses. The challenge was
the fact that none of them had ever ridden a horse! Drawing on her vast
experience of horses and equine art, Aubern Mason went to work
gathering reference and sketching out the composition. Meanwhile
Ian Mason worked on doing studies of the children's faces from family photos
to get the right chracterisics and subileties. After the client's approval
of the sketches and color comp of the mural we then went about transferring
the images onto the wall.
The background and horses came first, then the bodies were fleshed
out and fiinally the faces and final elements like the trees and dogs were
added. The mural is on the angled part of the wall (gable) It sits opposite
the little girl's bed. So she can dream of riding horses and then wake
up and see it on the wall! This was a very satisfying mural!
Transfering the sketch.
vi Fleshing out the horses and landscape.
Halfway done.
The finished Mural!
Here are close-ups of the children's faces.