Mural Studio

Mural Studio

The mural studio was in the old Firehouse on Perley’s Lane and Second Street in downtown Hallowell. A great space, but Jen and I needed to build a temporary wall inside the large room to act as a mural easel.

This space on the second floor became my second studio for much of the next four years.

priming the mural canvas

Building the Easel

Here are Jen and me on the day we built the “temporary” wall easel to hold the mural canvas. “Temporary” ended up being over 4 years, with a lot of work and quite a few interuptions, including that major interuptor of COVID. But in 2023 the mural was finished and the easel dismantled.

heading

a bit of text about the section of the mural…

This is a quote from the artist.

artist, Chris Cart

priming the canvas

Jen Cart, the artist’s wife, helping double prime the canvas. The “canvas” is actually a fabric called Polytab, a non woven synthetic fabric. It is double primed on both sides.