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Lakeview on the rise cabinet
 The cabinet (right in front of clubhouse!) |  Gale's color design showing what will be painted on every surface of the cabinet |  Gale begins by painting sky and foothills (southeast corner of cabinet) |
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 Filling in the mid-ground fields, lakes and bike path (northeast corner of cabinet) |  Continuing with sky, foothills & mountains, fields, lakes & bike path (NE corner of cabinet) |  Gale adds color to the (Robert Benson) lake: southwest corner of cabinet |
 Gale begins to add foreground details including fencepost (southeast corner) |  Meadowlark on fencepost begun |  Detail and outlines make meadowlark stand out from background |
 Here Gale has ghosted in a family on the bike path (east side of cabinet) |  Sunflowers added to foreground (southwest corner of cabinet) |  A trio of Canada geese fly from right to left (south face of cabinet) |
 Experimenting with placement on path of person in wheelchair (west face of cabinet) |  Gale decided to paint each figure a different solid color so as to represent a diverse community. She also added a gazebo (east face) |  Wheelchair figure closer to foreground. Gender is intentionally neutral. Detail/contrast added to purple mountains |
 Detail added to Longs Peak & Mount Meeker |  Pelicans are common at Robert Benson Lake: north face of cabinet |  How will Gale fill up empty space? |
 Sunflowers in foreground; trees & cattails in midground |  This is a portrait of a resident's dog. Gale enjoyed getting to know some of the community's residents |  Solitary redwing blackbird on cattail (west face of cabinet) |
 A couple of prairie dogs and a clump of curly doc plant break up the foreground space |  Added cattail foliage and more redwing blackbirds (west face) |  Cabinet top also needs contrasting colors and shapes to fill in space |
 Gale working on the top of cabinet |  Abstract stripes of topography and bike path seen from above |  Adding clouds to break up sky near Horsetooth Rock on horizon |
 More sunflowers in foreground and butterflies to break up space |  Finished Monarch butterflies |  Adding more detail & contrast to break up space |
 Adding contrast, busy-ness with trees, sunflowers, milkweed |  Deepening contrast on east face |  Finishing pelicans, lake, bullrushes |
 |  Completed west face of cabinet |  Contrast and busy-ness |
 Finished! |
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