The YWCA of Tacoma/Pierce county engaged my services to come up with marketing pieces of a new playground they wanted for fund raising.  A fun little project, I included two 11x17 watercolor paintings of a hypothetical play area and fun house and riding track.  (BCRA work, circa 2008).

A view of the fun house and wall mural behind, fence with ornamental wrought steel and glass to lend a safe, festive/cheerful environment to mothers and children recovering from domestic violence.

This is a rough plan view of the previous perspectives.  A small site and sloped would have required regrading and retaining walls on the north (right side) to bring level with the rear entry.  This was a fun little study.

Here I am consulting with the deputy director of the facility about the themes, design fit, prior to commencing work on site. 

Here's a snapshot of the original marketing brochure with my ideas and the working design for the mural installation.

In 2012 the Tacoma/Pierce County YWCA hired me to design and paint a mural for all the hallways and hall ceilings on the childrens program floor for after school, preschool and counseling services. 

An extremely challenging project, I managed to finish design, roughing out and painting the final product in three months' time, while working with contractors finishing construction on this floor.

In this case, the hawk is 4' wide.  

Dimensions: walls 9' high, 50' long each, 1800 square feet plus.

Painted in honor of a relative of the director of the facility, this is the finished product of the hawk in the south wing of the building.

The intent was to paint images of nurturing habits of animal families and their northwest habitat, images that convey safety and family.

I developed my own images and drew them on walls with sepia markers, off a grid from 1/2" squares = 1' throughout the halls.

Here's the finished product of the Osprey over a lake.

Humor is a necessary part of healing, and these bears were drawn in to tell a funny story.

Here is a view of the bears and down the central hallway.  A salmon stream crosses the hall on the utility chase (upper right)

This large Orca is directly in front of the elevator doors and provides a grand entry sign, pointing the way to the Childrens Program floor.