As I have talked about previously in this thread I want to have murals on the inner walls of the sept. I completed four of these a couple of years ago and now I have brought them forth again. Here are two of them:
The Hell of the Merciless Sun
The Hell of Perpetual Drowning
The Hell of Eternal Winter
While I think they look alright, it is not exactly what I saw in my minds eye. I was going for a naive medieval style but ending up using the same style I apply to my miniatures. I have during the last few days made some new attempts and while I have made some progress I am just not skilled enough to make my hand do what my imagination tells it to. So...
Instead I am using the old murals I prepped. They are painted on thin double sided corrugated cardboard covered with a thin layer quick cement (the kind you use to mend cracks in concrete). Why this combination? Well, the cement is fine enough to works well as plastered surface, as would have been used by a westrosi
pictor. I picked double sided corrugated cardboard because it is rigid enough not to warp too much as the wet cement dries. Also, after the cemented has dried and the mural has been painted on it, it is fairly easy to separate the two back layers from the painted and up with a thin sheet which you can glue to the wall. Like so...
As I feel off the cardboard layers the painting did not crack att all.
The walls onto which I glue the murals are rather uneven, so I used sheets of thin balsa wood and clamps to ensure a good bond.
All the murals squeezed in place.
There, all clams removed and edges trimmed. I will no go on to weather and wear the murals. The colours are too bright so I will most likely airbrush them with a light dusting of light grey. I will probably do make the edges prettier somehow. Cracks and holes need to be chipped away to reveal the brickwork behind. Various washes and pastels should be applied to simulate dust, soot, algae, rain damage and other. I think I can make it look alright.
