POULSBO — Artist James Mayo has finished the mural under the Lindvig Way bridge over Dogfish Creek.

“You commissioned me to do you a ‘Big Mac and fries,’” Mayo told the Poulsbo City Council on May 4, in reference to the council’s initial request for the painting of a troll. “And I’ve given you a steak and fine wine.”

After he painted the troll in April 2015, Mayo was so unhappy with it that he painted over it and started again.

The new murals — there are actually two, one under each end of the bridge — portray a Northwest stream as seen from two different points of view.

The mural on the abutment under the west side of the bridge is a close up depiction of a dramatic underwater scene, with a river otter plunging in after fleeing chum salmon. The panoramic mural on the east abutment shows the stream as seen from above the water — a bucolic vista complete with mountains and meadows, eagles and birds, a Coast Salish fisherman,

Spoiler alert: There are also a number of “Easter eggs” — hidden visual jokes — for the careful viewer, Mayo said. Look for Bigfoot and a self-portrait of the artist as a fisherman, among others.iden.a Native canoe and, in a nod to Poulsbo’s Norwegian heritage, a Viking shield ma

Mayo said he has been painting murals around the peninsula for the last 25 or 30 years. He recalled doing “eight or nine” in Bremerton, six in Port Townsend, two in Gorst, “three or four” in Port Hadlock and six for a Chinese restaurant in Port Angeles.  “But the building in Port Angeles burned down, so those probably don’t count.

“You can’t live on the [Olympic] peninsula and not have seen my artwork,” he said.