Murals!

I am working on some tennis backboard murals for our city parks, with the delightful help of the local Campfire USA kids. The backboards themselves are in pretty bad shape, and required quite a bit of prep work. They are 10'x6' and the wood is cracking and peeling off. Not the best surface, but what the heck.
This is the first of three.










And.. after the initial stages:




I decided to go with a killer whale design on this one. I drew out the basic picture then did a "paint by color code" chart for the kids. They whipped out the initial painting pretty quick.











Here is the "finished" product.













I then spent some time cleaning it up, adding a little detail, and covering it with a nice layer of spar varnish, what with the tennis balls to be smacked against it.

Here it is finished. It has yet to be mounted at the tennis courts.
Next mural will be a frog eating a bug.