(PCM+) Sunny Dayz Series: A Peek into the Muralist’s Mind

by Carey Head/ Staff Writer

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Ponca City’s Kortny Miller created this mural for last year’s Sunny Dayz Mural Festival in Tulsa. Because she was a selected artist last year, this year Kortny is serving her hometown as a volunteer for the SDMF steering committee. (Photo provided by SDMF, Flight Agency, photographer)

For any writer, a blank, 8 ½ by 11-inch piece of paper (formerly spooled into a typewriter, now Microsoft Word’s blank screen equivalent) can loom large and forbidding. That cursor benignly blinks away waiting for prose to flow through the writer’s fingers and onto that page.

Artists face the same challenge when confronting their own blank canvases. Muralists face a blank wall.

A really big one.