School Beautification: Library Mural

Hello!

This year I worked with the Freshmen Class Council to plan, design, and create a mural in our school's library. The students collaborated and brainstormed different ideas related to library. The class council then divided into 3 groups, each coming up with a design and sketch. We submitted the sketches to the librarian who made the final decision on which mural to create. We then created a final sketch on the computer using Photoshop and projected it onto the wall using an LCD projector. We decided to paint the mural on an unused bulletin board in the library so it could be moved easily if the librarian decided to move furniture. We stretched a piece of canvas over the bulletin board and primed it with gesso. We then used paints that I obtained for free at a local paint company and began painting. It was a lot of fun and it gave the Freshmen another opportunity to do some school beautification and community service. If you take on a project such as this I recommend working with multiple small teams instead of one big team or else it becomes difficult to find room to paint (size permitting of course). This completed mural measures approximately 6 ft. X 9 ft. From start to finish approximately 30 hours went into creating this mural. Great job Freshmen Class!