Black Watch Lido bar

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This is the Lido swimming pool bar area on board the Fred. Olsen cruise ship M.S. Black Watch. In this mural various objects had to be negotiated such as signs, ventilation grills, temperature guages etc. Below are some details.

Here the temperature guage boxes on the left were disguised as parts of the banana tree. The "no diving" sign appears to be nailed to the tree. The shape of the ventilation grill and its lid were broken up with cloud and leaf. The top of the palm tree is lightly suggested continuing onto the canvas ceiling panels.

This cheeky monkey is trying to eat not a banana but a yellow mobile phone (Where did he get that from?). Some passengers might connect the peacock feather with the peacock I painted in another mural three decks above.

There appears to some confusion as this monkey is listening to a banana.

Wheras the character below seems too much like one of the passengers

Below you see the mural in context. The sea was painted slightly violet to complement the real yellow and white awnings. The bananas and yellow and red partial boat on the left help to balance the awnings on the right. The wall colour relates to the poolside tiles.