At my daughter's school, they want to put a mural up on the side of the science lab. I thought I'd periodically post the progress. Murals are really fun and kind of complicated.
Here is the lab's wall, with white boxes superimposed on it. The boxes each represent a panel of plywood. Our theory is to paint one panel at a time, so they get added on and so that the "story" takes shape as we add each one.
We also want to involve as many students as possible in painting, and being able to lay a piece of wood flat on the ground means they can work on it all the way around. No ladders! No kids on ladders! This is good.
Our concept at this point is "powers of ten," starting with DNA and working our way up to the solar system. So I've spent part of today honing my DNA-drawing skills. Those are tricky little things, those DNA strands.
There is some really beautiful micro-photography out there - check out Molecular Expressions. They've got all kinds of neato images. I can get stuck there poking around very easily.
We're also looking to re-use paint and primer if we can. Give new life to other people's misguided paint color choices.
Once we get the first panel settled, I'm going to use a grid to transpose it onto the big panel. That's a big deal since we don't want some weird Gumby effect when we scale it up.
Anyway, it's a big ol' wall of potential. Hopefully soon I'll have a panel to show!
1 comments:
can't wait to watch. Always wanted to run a summer camp around doing a public mural -- a camp that's completely collaborative and ends with a "permanent" product. Not this year... maybe next. Thanks for sharing the progress!
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