It pays to prepare.

Hours spent working on the mural drawing (from months ago) have been well spent. When you make every inch as highly rendered as possible, a  4 inch square that gets blown up to 6 foot square is surprisingly undaunting. When you draw out every leaf to begin with it makes filling the square footage so much simpler.

But since the projector's 100 watt incandescent bulb gets so hot (remember the Easy Bake Oven?

those would bake a cupcake with a 100 watt bulb) I turn it off for 5 minutes of every 10. This slows down progress, but it also prevents the "table" it's sitting on from melting or catching on fire. I'm going to try a CFL later and see if it fits.

Here's some progress photos, and also the contraption I came up with to hold the projector. Ideal is not the word I'm thinking of, I mean to fix that soon too.