On the Job: Day 45, 8-16

Well my friends the time has come. Three colors on one bay left to paint. The crew and I have been working on wiping down walls and sealing them up with plastic still. Tomorrow will be the same. Luke is the one up in the final box and it's looking good. We're so close to being done. We even started pulling supplies from the building today. All of our paints and most of our lights have been packed up and sent away. It's going to be strange not being in the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts on a regular basis anymore after this week. We may not be back until the opening reception- and by then everything will be completed and the growth and constant change will slow to a halt. It's been fun. 

On the Job: Day 40, 8-9

Started in "the box" again today. No peeling. Keep your fingers crossed. I mixed a new color today for it since we were running low on the original color. I dubbed it "A Muddy Reincarnation." It works. I asked Micah to bring me my camera and instead of going to get it, he drew it (See picture below). Uh.... I reckon that's all.

On the Job: Day 36, 8-2

Well.... Our box peeled worse today than it ever has. Is that three or four times where we almost start from scratch? Can't hardly remember. Took some video- Down below. Cheers.

 
Kauffman Center Mural updates Day 36 from Abby Gallagher on Vimeo.

Process book meeting #4, 7-26

So, we all met at Barnes and Noble for our Process Book Meeting last night. We looked through books and magazines to find inspiration for our layouts, color schemes, and possibly type face choices (though we seemed to have settled that matter already. Mo did well). I am working on color schemes and though I like the bold colors of the first image and the fox image below, the woman in sepia tones kind of spoke to me. The idea of having a set of muted colors with one pop of color seems pretty logical considering how saturated most of our photos will be (there are a TRUCK LOAD of colors in this mural). It was a good meeting, we have a lot to think about now.

The rest of us were not as bored as Lance.

On the Job: Day 31, 7-26

The peeling paint issue that had arisen in the box Micah and I have still been working on seems to have been averted for the time being (knock-on-wood for you suspicious types). We are hoping to finish the box up tomorrow which may or may not happen, it will be a close call. I managed to make it to floor 8 today to take pictures of the glass (photos below of course), as well as a few other random things.

Tomorrow (being Tuesday) morning you should tune into NPR (89.3 for those of you in KC) and check out the story they interviewed us for. They're playing the story at 5:30a, 730a, and 930a. Wednesday the story will be up on their website KCUR.org (in the archives). I'll post a tangible link Wednesday when I find it.

Sheesh- I used a lot of parentheses today. (Hoo. Yeah. What are they good for? Absolutely nothing. (Not true, but you get my point)). Uhm..... guess that's really all I know for today.

On the Job: Day 27, 7-19

Today was rather eventful. While I was putting some final touches on The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Blueberry, I was getting up close and personal and a bug crawled out of the wall right in front of my face. I yelped and Micah had to kill it for me. Gross. THEN we had a guy from the KC Star come interview us, which was sweet. I'll post the link to the article as soon as he sends it to me. I finished the box I've been working in and started on the smallest box on that side of the stage on the bottom floor. I tapped of a shape that should be painted by the end of tomorrow. All good stuff. We'll be having our third process book meeting tonight... I'll post picture if I take any... Uhm... what else... Nothing I guess! Talk to you tomorrow :)

On the Job: Day Thirteen, 6-28

Monday, Monday. We seemed to be watching a lot of paint dry today so it went a bit slower, but we should have a few more boxes knocked out bright and early tomorrow morning. Remember the walls we had to scrape clean of primer? Well we started drawing on them again today. Swell. My day was filled with Young Grandma (pink) and Fantasia Elephant (another pink) mixed in with some Great Gatsby Green.