Jungle Animal Mural in Baby's Nursery

This is a walkthrough of my boy Beau's bedroom, where I've painted a super-fun mural of jungle animals to keep him company, including a few cheeky Monkeys peering down from the trees, a Mommy & Baby Elephant spraying water from a pond over their heads, two Giraffes peeking into the crib, and a Lion and Lion Cub grinning over the changing table.
When my wife was pregnant with Beau, I also created a series of comics for him titled "Notes to Bean". They're sweet little heartfelt thoughts and sentiments I wished I'd considered more as a young man, and I think he'll get a kick out of them some day. For now, you can enjoy them, too, by visiting notestobean.com... if you or anyone you know are expecting, please pass the url along, as they will be sure to relate to and appreciate my thinking at that particular point in time.
As for the mural itself, eventually, I'll be doing a more formal how-to walk through in a blog entry at my website daveberns.com, but until that day comes, look up "Notes to Bean" on Facebook, as I was documenting a lot of the in-progress work on this mural project there with photographs, in real time.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Notes-to-Bean/122450141108446?v=info#!/album.ph...

http://notestobean.com
http://daveberns.com

Category:

Howto & Style

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• Mural
• Jungle
• Animal
• Acrylic
• Painting
• Wall Art
• Art
• Artwork
• Jungle Mural
• Animal Mural
• Nursery
• Baby
• Child
• Kid
• How-to
• Lion
• Cub
• Monkey
• Tree
• Giraffe
• Elephant
• Crib
• Changing Table
• Children
• Pregnant
• Expecting
• Parent

[hrmckenzie]

I am looking into doing my sons bedroom exactly like this! I am so inspired, you are truly gifted!

[thedaveberns]

@hrmckenzie Thanks! I hope you'll send me a link to a video or some photos when you do!

[wheeler22j]

It looks absolutely great Dave! Job well done.

[thedaveberns]

@wheeler22j Thanks! He's a little older now and still LOVES the lions over his changing table, he does laugh at them now!

[143wookie]

Fantastic job! I love the jungle / safari / zoo animal theme. Looking around for ideas to present to a muralist. I like knowing what I'm going to get, so thanks for some ideas!!

[lookwhatdaddydid]

Love the work just beautiful