3rd Wall DONE! Yay!

This wall is all kinds of fun fish. The dog fish is chasing the cat fish. The kangaroo fish has a baby joey fish in her pouch. And the ROYGBIV clown fish are perfectly balanced on the tiny snail.



Adam is already started on the last wall, with some of the classic Seuss characters to come.

Dog Fish

Don't you all think this dog fish is a mix of Pene and Jax? He has Jax's good looks but definately has Pene's cheerful personality.

Stoney meet your cousin

Adam has not had time to paint this week since he and his dad were pouring concrete in the back yard. Looks great though and now we have enough room to have a BBQ and table.





Big news this week was the arrival of Stonewall Jackson Denham III. Adam's little sister gave birth to a 7lb 7oz 20.5in baby boy on May 19th. Stoney got to meet his impending cousin this weekend... well he enjoyed sleeping on my belly anyhow.



He is so sweet. It will be lots of fun to have cousins only 2 months apart, just like my sis and cousin.

From Pencil to Paint

To begin Adam started by sketching all the characters. Now as he makes his way around the room, he paints over the sketch with the base character colors, then re-sketches the detail on top. Lastly, he takes a fine brush to paint all the black details... this is the part that really takes the most time and patience.

You can see a bit of the process in the pictures of the three guys in the bucket and the walrus on the island. It starts with just a pencil drawing and then there are pictures of different stages of the process.



The guys in the bucket will be looking down over the crib.

Vaguely avian yellow creatures - the sneetches

Two sneetches; a monkey giving a flower to an eagle; a long-necked bird as a height chart; and a fishing boy.

Now the room is half way done. Two more walls to go, with lots of fish, Horton and Cat in the Hat still to come.

blue and pink rooster

All that is left to do on this wall is add the name to the sign.


Adam was going to do a really girly fish instead of the tough lobster if it was a girl.

Then, out of the box came...

Thing Two and Thing One! And they ran to us fast. They said, "How do you do?"