I've Sketched using white pencil Hope you can see it, also the blurry lines are where I erased earlier attempts. also the 2 photos shown were the only 2 of 6 that would show up on camera the white lines I used for sketching the backdrop.

Well I've painted the first 24 feet of my Back Drop with a sky Blue and allowed it a week to dry. Next I collected all the photos of the Rocky Mountains near where the Rio Grande Southern ran and tried my hand at sketching them on my back drop. I think I have now got the sketching to the size I wanted. This is after about 5 tries and alot of Erasing. the final sketch is in white pencil I hope you can see it. next I'll start painting the under coat of the mountains. This is something I've never done before in a large mural or Back drop and so I'm learning as I go. over the years I done a few landscapes using water colors but those were on paper maybe 18 by 24 inches at the largest this is the first 48 inch tall X 24 feet long mural and if it doesn't work I'll have to spend in excess of $600.00 to buy the back drops I want up to cover the entire Railroad. I'll keep posting as I go and as someone once said "let your inner artist out" I just hope he's in here somewhere.