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Mural artist CT – Italian villa inspired Mural project in CT.

By Marc Potocsky, MJP Studios

 Mural artist CT - Italian villa inspired Mural project in CT.

Italian villa inspired painted Ceiling Mural project in New Canaan, CT.

The client wanted a reproduction of a room from an actual Italian Villa in Monticello, Italy with decorative painted ornament and wanted a Tiepolo reproduction in the center.

We found some good reference photos for inspiration,  In this case we used photos from a villa in Monticello.

italian ceiling murals ct villa grottesca

Villa Grottesca

  Mural artist CT – Italian villa inspired Mural project in CT.

montecello-villa-grottesca-fesco

Monticello villa Grottesca fresco

First We make a maquette drawing of the space and its design.

Villa repro hallceiling

Next I made a few sample panels for design and arrangement  and color,  doing one panel and the boarder  for clients approval.

one of the 1st to scale drawings

One of the scale drawings

Sample panel for painted italian frescoe Mural, MJP Studios, CT.

Design, color, test sample

I made some changes for the client, taking out some creepy looking creatures. They wanted some rabbits,  dolphins and strawberry’s.

The boarder was basically a replica of the original.

italian ceiling murals ct. Boarder with trompe molding, egg & dart.

Boarder with trompe molding, egg & dart.

On this project I needed 125 ft. of boarder. That’s a lot of border to paint by hand! So I cut my own stencils for the egg and dart, the ribbon etc. to block in the colors for the boarder. 

Hand painting boarder in the studio for ceiling Mural CT.

Hand painting boarder in the studio for ceiling Mural CT.

Here is my excellent crew having at it. Then the detailing had to be done by hand by myself and my son David. Everything was done in my studio on a special coated printing paper, so we were basically making a custom wallpaper, rather than painting on canvas or muslin. Its a lot easier than working  directly on walls and ceilings.

Copy (2) of 10Uncle Marc

italian ceiling murals ct ornament

Ornament for ceiling mural

The center piece are figures from a Tiepolo piece. We had to make a border for that too we did that in quarters then placed it around the circular mural.

Tiepolo Mural reproduction painted in acrylics for italian ceiling murals ct

Tiepolo ceiling Mural reproduction painted in acrylics ct

We made four pieces of the circular boarder for the centerpiece.

Circular boarder

Circular boarder

Once completed we installed on sight.

italian villa boarder

Boarder Install

 Mural artist CT - Italian villa inspired Mural project in CT.

Ornament install (Notice Italian style faux marble).

 

 

 Mural artist CT - Italian villa inspired Mural project in CT.

Installing the mural panels

  Mural artist CT - Italian villa inspired Mural project in CT.

Corner wall panel

 Mural artist CT - Italian villa inspired painted Ceiling Mural project in CT

Mural – Tiepolo Center piece installed

 Painted Ceiling Mural, New Canaan, CT - Overlazed

Installed and Over glazed section of Mural.

We put a wash over the whole piece to give it an aged look.

 Mural artist CT - Italian villa inspired painted Ceiling Mural project in New Canaan, CT.

Mural artist CT – Italian villa inspired Mural project in CT Finished!

If your interested in seeing more grotessca and painted ornament or classes on the subject, visit our MJP Studios decorative painting class schedule.

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 Mural artist CT – Italian villa inspired Mural project in CT

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Decorative Painter / Muralist Marc Potocsky MJP Studios CT

Decorative Painter / Muralist Marc Potocsky MJP Studios CT

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