Imagination Atmospheres Blog
Thoughts on Art, Creativity and the Creative Process
What Is The Source Of Your Creativity?
As creatives, we are often moved by an inner pull to create art. I honestly can't count the times when I've had an impulsive desire to paint or draw, yet when I sat down in front of the blank canvas or paper, not a single idea would flow from my head or hands. During...
Flat Mural Painting
Have you wondered why we require the base coats for our mural painting to be flat? Also, why we paint our murals using a flat sheen? The reason for both is ultimately the same. When you pay to have a mural painted, the last thing you want is for viewers to not be able...
Top Five Church Themes for Kids
Church themes incorporating themed environments and wall murals continue to be popular for kid's church rooms. They're great ways to hold a child's attention, perfect tools for teaching stories and concepts and they almost always guarantee a child will come back to...
Jesus Murals
As a muralist who specializes in painting religious murals, I have a confession to make. I'm not a big fan of painting Jesus murals. I know, I know, you wonder how someone can paint church murals for a living and not want to paint Jesus. Let me explain... When I was a...
Painting Children’s Wall Murals
Most kid's spaces can be improved with the addition of murals but painting large-scale murals can be a little intimidating. In this post, we'll share some of the secrets to our children's wall murals and give you some tips that will insure your own murals have the...
Bible Story Murals that Work
Bible story murals continue to be one of our most popular themes for murals and themed environments. Our style for creating the Bible story themes is to make characters and scenarios fun and “cartoony” so they will appeal to kids and can be integrated into their...
Theme Ideas for Pediatric Facilities
Many pediatric offices today don't look like the facilities of old. Pediatric medical and pediatric dental offices are designing their waiting rooms, exam rooms and even their buildings to appeal to their main clientele, the kids. Pediatricians are striving to create...
Putting Off Procrastination?
Last month I purchased the first gift for someone on my Christmas list. This is unprecedented for me. I rarely think about presents until a week or two before Christmas. In my years working as an editorial cartoonist, I would frequently wait until hours before...
Painting The Base Coat for Murals
Before we paint or install murals, we request that you prep your walls. This often requires painting a new base coat of paint on to your walls. It is important at this stage to make sure the walls contain no tape, nails, staples, holes, adhesive, oils,...
Focusing
I'm one of those artists who enjoys doing a variety of creative art forms. I'm lucky in that my job involves mural painting, airbrushing and cartooning because these are some of my favorite types of art but in my personal life I also enjoy fine art, performance art...
Welcome to the Jungle
Jungle murals and themes are always fun to create, especially when the space is on the smaller side. The surrounding jungle mural can give you a real claustrophobic feeling, similar to what you might feel in the real jungle. In this theme for Highlands Church in...
Downtown Main Street Theme
Mississippi Boulevard Baptist Church, Memphis, TN This abstract and cartoon main street mural features some specific Memphis icons such as BBQ and the City Zoo. While all of the walls areas are completely covered with murals, the lack of 3-D sculptures keeps the space...