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Lakeview on the rise cabinet
 The cabinet (right in front of the 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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 Gale has begun filling in the midground green fields, blue lakes and grey bike path (northeast corner of cabinet) |  Gale continues with sky, foothills and mountains along with green fields, blue lakes and grey bike path (northeast corner of cabinet) |  Gale adds color to the lake (represents Robert Benson Lake near the Lakeview on the Rise community) southwest corner of cabinet |
 Gale begins to add foreground details including fencepost (southeast corner) |  Gale has blocked in a meadowlark standing on the fencepost |  Gale has added detail and outlines to make the painted meadowlark stand out from the background |
 Here Gale has ghosted in a family on the bike path (east side of cabinet) |  Gale begins to add sunflowers 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) |  Gale decided to bring the figure in the wheelchair closer to the foreground. The person's gender is intentionally neutral. Detail/contrast has been added to the purple mountains |
 Detail added to Longs Peak & Mount Meeker |  Pelicans are a common sight around nearby Robert Benson Lake so it was essential to include some in the mural (north face of cabinet) |  Pondering how to fill up all the empty space at this stage of the mural |
 Gale adds more sunflowers to foreground and trees and cattails to midground |  This is a portrait of a resident's dog. Gale enjoyed getting to know some of the community's residents |  A solitary redwing blackbird sits on a cattail (west face of cabinet) |
 A couple of prairie dogs and a clump of curly doc plant break up the foreground space |  Gale has filled in more cattail foliage and a few more redwing blackbirds (west face) |  The top of the cabinet also needs to be busy and broken up with contrasting colors and shapes |
 Here's Gale working on the top of the cabinet |  Sunflowers emerging |  Abstract stripes of topography and bike path seen from above |
 Adding clouds to break up sky near Horsetooth Rock on horizon |  Gale has added more sunflowers in foreground and begun to add 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 |  |  |
 Contrast and busy-ness |  Finished! |
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