![]() “Colors in nature don’t come right out of a can,” Howard noted. Fellow artists are helping him do the painting, which will involve a fair amount of mixing paints. He said the mural depicts the region - farms, barns, butterflies, and the landscape. ![]() You just have to or you’re wasting your time,” Howard said. And I think when you have an opportunity to make something better for the people that come behind you, you gotta jump on it. ![]() The MBA mural will end up measuring 12 feet high by 60 feet long. But he has also painted murals directly onto buildings, as he did with the mural on The Old Dairy in downtown Macomb. Howard said he also chose to use panels because it allowed him to work on the project throughout the winter. Just turn it around (and) paint a new one,” he said. “The beauty of this (using panels) is we can take these panels – they’re the same front and back – and we can change the mural every five years or so if we want to. The panels will be bolted to the north wall of Gelsosomo’s Pizzeria, 221 N. He has an elaborate system of labeling to note what color paints should be used. ![]() He projected the image of each section’s portion of the overall mural onto the panels and drew the outline of that image. Howard is creating the piece on 24 aluminum panels. The MBA hired Howard to come up with a mural to commemorate the group’s 50 th anniversary. Artist Bill Howard said the project is on schedule to be unveiled in mid-June. Courtesy photo WIU students and other volunteers are helping paint the mural onto aluminum panels. ![]()
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