She later mounted the painting and hung it on the wood-paneled wall at Artistic Illusions, her mural-painting business and studio on East Charleston Boulevard, to create a faux window. A painter ...

Following on the heels of the faux painting rage of the 1990s, when homeowners were up on ladders sponging, ragging, marbling, glazing, and stenciling, it's now the decade of the mural.

But the Davenport woman recently completed her first faux stained-glass mural with the help of five Iowa Quad-Cities high school students, at Metropolitan Community Church of the Quad Cities, 2930 ...