I really enjoyed creating and painting this mural! I had a chance to improvise on the image, as the original piece which inspired this was in the proportion of a square, and this rectangle is three times longer than it. I also decided to try to move the viewer's eye around the image, making the middle of the image lighter and brighter, and the edges more dark. I hoped the viewer would then move from the middle to the edges and discover what surprises were there - a family of quail, a snail, and butterflies and dragonflies. I especially love the two swallows flying in the middle of the image! When I painted the water, I used turquoise and white, working wet on wet, and discovered that it appeared as waves when I stepped back from it. Also using the darker blue on the outer edges seemed to infer shadows close to the bull rushes.
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