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Entrance - Trompe L'Oeil
Entrance - Trompe L'Oeil

Swimming Pool Mural

Swimming pool mural is one of the theme that fascinates me and making a design needs to make a research about the perfect image of the mural painting. The brief was to make this huge room feel majestic and enchanting of calmness and because this mural painting is for the institution of the older citizens and recreational pool of the firm. The idea is to picture an exotic and Asiatic scene of beach, a paradise seascape. I came from the Philippines and I've seen some picturesque view that you feel a new dimension of completeness, you can say that this unbelievable scenes exist only in dreams. My approach is to render a scene that continuously viewed in each four walls; panoramic scene that gives an impression that you are scanning the scene. The first and the second face are continuously and ending the walls in cube that surround the basin of the pool.

 

The Rule of Thirds:
Composition is very important to me, making the bed of sea is twice larger than the sky and implement the wave effect of the coast. The rendition of cool colors are twice bigger than the hot colors.

Swimming Poll Mural : Design 1
Swimming Pool Mural - Design # 1
Swimming Poll Mural : Design 2
Swimming Pool Mural - Design # 2

 

When doing a painting scenery I've always start completing the background and recede backward adding design elements. The farther the object, the tone density more lighter and misty as it was a part of the sky.

My second approach is to make a tonal gradation of darker blue and turquoise and blend it paler as it reaches the coast. Making it calm is not to put too much waves, next is I added the mass of sand in a rhythm composition, as when you scan the panoramic view will invite you to where was the end of the horizon.

I've added plants to the tallest like palm trees and the sakura, the beautiful flower tree of Japan; a medium size elements such as banana leaves and the anahaw palms with an exotic nipa hut. I've added the grasses, bushes and create a landscape of wild flowers. Adding some birds in a far horizon and some accents of toucan in the foreground more lively and realistic.

My design no. 1 is my first interpretation making as a very cool place and with 30% of hot colors as and again the composition of the rule of thirds.

The best approach is to use use an oil paints because it was tough in humidity, and it is important to to use the right material in painting and to take into consideration temperature change, condensation and chemicals all involved in the everyday running and maintenance. In this manner the longevity of the the painting depends on well prepared surface and properly care protection.


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