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Mural - Finished and Installed

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Kelly Thorson
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Mural - Finished and Installed

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Loved working with the Aura paints!
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We loaded it up and off to Brooks. It's hard to believe that much work fits into this box!!!! With three of us working it took a combined total of 50 hours to install it.

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For closer views of the individual panels click here
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Larry White
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Re: Mural - Finished and Installed

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Nice mural...very nice mural.

Interesting configuration.

I like hex nuts, I mean, I always have...

valves too...

You never mentioned anything about a certian, Lunch Box....

Good job. Just might make some sense to take the rest of the afternoon off.
Pat Welter
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Re: Mural - Finished and Installed

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Well done, awesome job,great to see it up and together...Pat
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Kelly Thorson
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Re: Mural - Finished and Installed

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Thanks Larry, I think I may take a couple of weeks off. Well, as soon as I get done a couple of other projects. ;)
Pat and Ruth, thanks so much for the day you and Graham helped, your visit gave me the strength to push through finish the job on time. :) The pipes panel was one committee members favourite, BTW.
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DAVE SMITH
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Re: Mural - Finished and Installed

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Wow Kelly! You put some work in on this one.
Very Nice job..
Dave
Dennis Davis
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Re: Mural - Finished and Installed

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Kelly, you folks really did a grand job on that project. I'm sure you are glad it is behind you. What's next on the agenda?

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Kelly Thorson
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Re: Mural - Finished and Installed

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Sleep :lol:
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Tony Segale
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Re: Mural - Finished and Installed

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I'll be d____ed.

Very nice, Thorson.
Did you have any govt hangups layin that pipeline?
Where abouts is the bldg? would I have seen the area?

Good project, great concept, good persistence.
If you're gonna persist, you have to persist harder.

Put that in your portfolio,
and if you painted a small, to scale colored rendering,
enter it in your nearest art contest. Beef up that exposure,eh?

Aho.
and he took that golden hair and made a sweater for baby bear.
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Kelly Thorson
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Re: Mural - Finished and Installed

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The mural is about 6 hours drive from here in Brooks, Alberta, Tony. It's in the industrial area of the city on a main road where it should get lot's of exposure.
It's titled "Making the Connection", a play on the oil terminology portrayed in the largest panel as well as the connection of the panels by pipes.
The concept was a solution to covering the size of the building within the budget, as well as an insurance should I be unable to complete it alone. The individual panels with the b&w framework would have allowed me to hire different artists to complete panels and still have them tie in together. As it was I managed to complete them all with the help of my daughter Jess, who helped with a couple and painted the rig panel. We've worked together enough that she can work in the same style. I found it a bit difficult to stick to the slightly cartoony look as it isn't my normal style, but the tight deadline helped keep me from refining too much.
I really enjoyed the chance to just paint for a few weeks, it is what I was meant to do and I hope it brings in more projects. I've got a couple of other murals in the works, although they will probably not be until next year. This project took a lot of energy.
I believe there is no shame in failure. Rather, the shame lies in the loss of all the things that might have been, but for the fear of failure.
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