Life as an Artist #2: My Mural Painting Story PART 1

Good Day my Steemian Family and Friends, these following days I will share with you my fascinating story about my first experience doing Mural Painting, and it's kind of big deal because it will be put on a gallery in one of the big name mall here in the Philippines, the SM Pampanga.

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Let me give you a brief background about how I get to join some veteran artists and experiencing this unforgettable moment in my life. It started with a question, "Do you have anything to do this following days or week or month?" my Father asked, then as I am vacant those time, I replied with a positive answer, then he told me, they're in hand to finish a project, to cut the story short, I got recruited to paint a mural, which I don't have background before, but of course, I have a bit of confidence in my talent for I am taught by my dad ever since I was little.

outside our workplace, their preparing the panels that are going to be painted by us artists,

Inside, all of these artists are familiar with me, some I worked with, on previous projects some are friends of my Dad, like Mr. Ricky Magat, He's one of the oldest friends of my Dad I've known since I was a kid, he's also a graphic artist,

Since this was my first day at work, they somehow measured my capacity in doing a mural, so they gave me a simpler task, my first-day work is this guy,

so now they know, I somehow, know how to handle a brush hahaha

but compared to the difficulty of what they're doing, mine's a child play,

even that time, I once again saw how good my Dad at painting,

I kind of enjoy doing this, because ever since I'm trying to prove to myself I know how to paint haha
time goes by, and it's a wrap for that day,

We need to get some rest, for tomorrow is another day of work, and this time it's gonna be different from those simpler tasks they gave me.

The next day comes knocking quickly, with no time to waste, I got prepped for this day,

In this line of work, we sometimes can't do it alone, I'm not a technical type of paint, whose more precise in doing the thing with measurement, so leave it to my friend Noly Maderazo

He has his thing in that station, he does the floor in this one, or maybe I'm just too lazy to do all that stuff haha
sometimes he gets my help in the thing he can't do too, so it's like helping each other on the job,

Yes, we simply enjoy working together, so that it won't get boring in our workplace haha,

As I said, we all have some kind of expertise, for some, it's airbrush and all, like our friend, Eric Pino

And one of our Veteran, Ricky Magat, whose very good at painting human expression and all,

And of course my Dad, whose from my childhood, I know as a very good painter,

and yes, he sometimes talks to his hand to get to know more about how to paint it and all haha,

Here's some of our finished work that time, because of the nature of our work, which is time-consuming, we tend to sleep in our workplace, and sometime we work late at night just to finish our work faster,

Here's my Voodoo Grabber,

Noly's Ghoul work,

Eric's Grabbing skeleton,

kuya Ricky's Whisperer,

and my Dad's Puppeteer,

Our artwork's timeline depends on how big our panels are, for example, we could finish artwork with the smaller panel, like 4x8 ft size panel in a day or two, sometimes bigger panel consumes a lot of time from scaling to execution, it sometimes takes two to three days to finish, and it sometimes depends on the difficulty of the artwork, and not all of us is so free for this kind of work, some of us are taking a days off because they have other work aside from this, so, this project took a lot of time to finish.

So again as we do this project, we sometimes spend a lot of time in the workplace,

As days pass by, we work day in day out, not because we're paid to do so, but because it's our passion for doing so, I will pause for a break on this part and I will continue sharing my life as an artist to you my Steem Family and Friends, Thank you for reading my post.

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