I’m so happy the mural is finally done, and I got the scaffold out of our foyer.  Painting the overglaze was the most difficult part of the entire process.  I was able to do some of it from the hall on the second floor, but then on the middle part I realized I needed a longer extension pole.  I tried from a ladder, but it was too wobbly.  Finally I got an extension pole from my parents, and by standing with one foot on the ladder and one foot on the piano, I was able to get the highest sections.  It wasn’t as smooth and clean as I had hoped; there are smears on the ceiling and some of the strokes are messier than I’d hoped.  Still, it’s unavoidable when you make the paint transparent (with glaze) that you’ll see some brush strokes.

The yellow leaves turned out nearly invisible–something I suspected might happen.  Not too much of a detriment.  Also, the glaze nearly made the crows disappear, so I rubbed them with a dry paper towel to get some of the glaze off and make them stand out more.  Except for the messiness near the ceiling, the mural turned out as I’d expected.  It has a rather gothic/halloween feel, I suppose, but for one month of the year that will be perfect.

Final note: the paint in the lower image is glossy because it’s still wet.