CAS 11: Reflection - Mural Painting

Mural Painting

The schools mural was first started by a group of students who attended the Island Academy Summer Camp held in the summer of 2010. One of our teachers, Ms.Lewis and a friend of hers from away held a summer camp to teach students and open up their minds to creativity through art, music and dance. Therefore, this became one of their projects, but unfortunately they had no time to finish.
              The mural portrayed an amazing form of creativity and was off to such a great start there was no way it could be left unfinished! So, myself and 4 other IB students offered to team up and help Ms. Lewis complete the mural. We stayed after school on a Monday for an hour and started off painting the rest of the unfinished product. Painting was a lot of fun, we were able to put our artistic skills to work and get creative. I really enjoyed painting on such a large scale, as the mural was done on a huge wall at the side of the school. It wasn’t too difficult although being short was a bit challenging to reach the high spots. We stuck with three basic colors of yellow, blue and white preventing confusion and providing a simple but intriguing piece of work.
             Painting was a major portion of the mural, however we spent multiple classes designing and organizing another image for the remaining 3 areas on the wall. As a group we came up with ideas relating to our school and island that would help portray a combined image of who we are at Island Academy. As much as this was interesting to do, I much preferred the painting and more hands on work rather then the planning. This could be because I was anxious to see the end result and get it done. We used grid paper to help measure out the images for the remaining boards, which was quite confusing to use. I stuck to the designing and painting.
            Unfortunately, I was no longer able to continue this project after just a few classes as I needed to start preparing for the SAT. Therefore, I ended up coming to an abrupt stop with this project and haven’t been able to re join. Hopefully when I have completed my SAT, I will be able to continue helping with this project. However, the students that have continued are doing a great job and it is slowly coming together.