13 months ago
PORTLAND (NEWS CENTER) -- It has been a long--but fulfilling--two months for artists Elizabeth Burke and Rebecca Pease.
The two women work for Peerless Painting. That's the company that won the bid to create a mural on the wall of a new parking garage on India Street. When developers got the go ahead to build the garage there was a catch--the city didn't want a plain wall where there had once been a water view. Thus, the idea of the mural was born.
Burke and Pease starting painting in August. Before they took out their brushes, though, they first created a grid system with string on the surface of the wall. They worked on one section at a time with frequent breaks so they could step back and get some perspective.
The mural is based on a 1910 photograph of Portland Harbor. Its done in sepia tones.
"We worked with two paints," says Burke. "We worked with a cooler brown and with a warmer brown."
"Interpreting a photograph," she says, "that's only eight by five into something this size...so things that work in eight by five don't necessarily work at one hundred and ten by sixty. So we made some changes and adjustments."
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