WOBURN - Woburn resident Kim Medeiros' summer job was a little out of the ordinary. She spent her summer transforming an interior wall of a friend's house in Maine into an exact life-size replica of the interior of the Woburn Public Library.

Medeiros, who is entering her junior year at Maine College of Art in Portland, was approached by former Woburn resident Jarryl Larson, who asked Medeiros to paint the 387-square-foot mural in the house she shares with Byron Johnson in Edgecomb, Maine.

Larson met Medeiros at the United Methodist Church on Main Street and first noticed her painting skills after seeing her bedroom ceiling in her home on Dix Road in West Woburn.

As a teenager, Medeiros had decorated the ceiling with a mural of suns, moons and stars.

Not exactly the Sistine Chapel, but the painting obviously made a real impression on Larson, who remembered Medeiros when it came time to paint the wall of her home library.

She contacted Medeiros and asked her to submit sketches and bid against other artists for the painting job.

According to Medeiros, Larson had long admired the architecture of the Woburn Public Library and was inspired by a dream she had, to paint a replica of its historic interior on the wall of her own home library.

Medeiros, the clear front-runner for the job, submitted pencil sketches and began work on the 387-square-foot painting, which is located about 32 feet above the first floor of the open-timber frame house.

Without thinking of the daunting amount of work that lay before her, Medeiros jumped on a ladder and began painting. She explained, "I'm the type that goes with the flow."

After 154 hours of diligent work over the course of two months, Medeiros finally finished the detailed mural.

The painting starts above the doorway and stretches across the entire wall.

Below the painted bookshelves of the Woburn Library, Larson and Johnson plan on installing bookshelves for their own library.

Medeiros, a class of 2005 graduate from Woburn Memorial High School, claims that she had not painted in over a year before starting this project. A sculpture major at Maine College of Art, she credits her painting ability to skills she learned in basic high school art classes.

Besides painting, Medeiros enjoys ceramics, salsa dancing and playing soccer. However, she admits that her real passion is for sculpting.

Medeiros takes art history, liberal arts & humanities, and studio art classes in college. The already established artist plans to graduate in 2009 and is unsure of what artistic feats she will tackle next.