Preview: Cypress Mural Color Palette
If you think back to our visit to Jeff Unthank's studio during the Memphis mural tour, he was working with bright and bold colors in a sort of 'paint-by-numbers' technique to create his polytab panels. To speed up his process, he painted the mock-ups (shown below) and then ordered the matching paint for the big panels, pre-mixed. Similarly, for the Cypress Mural, we chose the colors for our mural beforehand in order to save time. A few things we had in mind when selecting the colors were coordinating the palette with the existing colors on the surrounding walls (non-mural walls), which range from a bright orange to an aqua blue, and the fact that the Red Zone is in the lower level of Cypress, with no windows--in an attempt to brighten up the space, we carefully made color choices that both translate well with our imagery and make a bold statement, as the colors in Jeff's panels do.
If you think back to our visit to Jeff Unthank's studio during the Memphis mural tour, he was working with bright and bold colors in a sort of 'paint-by-numbers' technique to create his polytab panels. To speed up his process, he painted the mock-ups (shown below) and then ordered the matching paint for the big panels, pre-mixed. Similarly, for the Cypress Mural, we chose the colors for our mural beforehand in order to save time. A few things we had in mind when selecting the colors were coordinating the palette with the existing colors on the surrounding walls (non-mural walls), which range from a bright orange to an aqua blue, and the fact that the Red Zone is in the lower level of Cypress, with no windows--in an attempt to brighten up the space, we carefully made color choices that both translate well with our imagery and make a bold statement, as the colors in Jeff's panels do. 
Inspired by Jeff's process, once we got the colors in, a few of us painted on top of the mock-ups for our mural to figure out where each one will be used on the wall. 
The Palette...
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