2024 New Additions: Mural REVEAL
New Mural Reveal!
We are so excited to finally reveal the mural we added to our new Adventure Barn! A lot of thought and planning has gone into how we would use this new barn, but we knew early on that we wanted to include a mural. (To read more about building our Adventure Barn, click
here.)
We were torn between going with a picturesque farm scene or a fun cartoon style. Ultimately we decided to cater to the kiddos since our new Adventure Barn where the mural is located is a play place for kids!
Here are some of the stats:
- The mural is 8 feet tall by 16 feet wide.
- Many hours were spent planning the design and buying the painting supplies.
- Shelley completed the painting in 45 hours over 10 days in early July.
Here's a look at the process.......
First, Matt and Andrew screwed 4 sheets of primed plywood to the barn wall to create a "canvas" for the mural to be painted on.
To keep this painting from looking like a 5-year-old's art project, I projected my design that I created on Canva onto the plywood. Matt and I worked together to trace the basic elements of the design using chalk.
After tracing, it looked like this! (I painted all the background grass and sky then came back and traced all the animals later.)
Next, I gathered all my painting supplies. I start with some basic colors: white, black, brown, orange, red, yellow, green, and blue and then mix all the other colors I need from there. I also stocked up on my favorite paint brushes.
This is where I ended up after 18.5 hours of painting. At this point, I traced on the animals which were next!
The next day I heard a sound behind me while I was painting. I was shocked to see that our baby goats Jacob and Esau had escaped their field, jumped onto the hay wagon that I had all my painting supplies on, and were hopping around checking it all out. Jacob ended up with white paint on his nose! A hilarious memory for sure. :)
These cartoon animals took tons of time, but turned out so cute - especially since I've never painted anything like that before!
Again, the final result! We aren't *completely* done with this spot though.......
Coming soon, we will be adding a large piece of artificial turf in front of this mural, creating a little corral area, and filling it with cute little "farm hoppers" that little kids can bounce around on! (see below)
And this is just one of several activities in this new barn that will be included with your Pumpkin Ridge Pass or Fun Pass! We can't wait to share this with you beginning on opening day, September 7th!
If you'd like to watch a minute and thirty second, timelapse video of the painting being done, we just posted that to our Instagram. You can watch it here.
Thanks for reading and sharing in our excitement for this fall,
Shelley & the Colson Family
