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We covered everything -- from the floor to the ceiling -- but the walls that Lynette was going to paint.
The walls were first painted black.
Lynette paints as Dr. White steers the scissor lift. The wall is 11 feet off the floor and over 40 feet wide.
She starts with the theater side wall which will bear the nine planets of our solar system.
She prepares a carefully measured outline on this sheet of paper...
After all the nine planets were outlined on the wall, Lynette masks around Jupiter and paints it with white Gesso.
This Jupiter is about 5 feet wide.
Lynette inspects her work thoroughly after completing all the planets.
Now the planets are covered up in order to paint the Milky Way background.
With a technique called spatter-painting she paints most stars of the Milky Way galaxy.
Fainter stars and interstellar dust is added with the airbrush. With a coat of varnish, this side is finished.
Shown here are (from left to right) Neptune, Uranus, and Saturn.
Lynette begins work on the other side. This is a recently discovered extrasolar planet Gliese 876 b.
The one on the left is a computer printout, the one on the right is her work on the wall.
A planetary system, a globular cluster, Stingray nebula, Siamese Squid nebula
These two nebulae are depicted as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope
Horsehead nebula
Lynette adds details to Orion nebula according to an image from 2MASS Collaboration, U. Mass., IPAC.
Adding details to the landscape of a hypothetical moon of Gliese 876 b.
All the plastic is removed and the masterpieces are revealed.
The theater side.