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Community Painting Day

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Our final day of painting. Countless thanks go out to everyone who came out for this day. We seriously couldn’t have done this without you, and are excited to feature our collaboration with you for everyone in the neighborhood to see come August.

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Painting Days

Jenie

After all this planning and preparing, we finally get to paint!

We spent:

  • 6/21: 1 full day (8 am to 3:30 pm) priming the boards and setting up the work area in the garage and driveway of Escuela Verde.
  • 6/22 and 6/27: 2 full days (8 am to 3:30 pm) painting with the students.
  • 6/28: 1 full day (8 am to 7:30 pm) painting with the community.
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One of our students tracing the projection onto a cement board panel. The butterfly on this panel is by student Josue Galicia.
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Painting on the projection. The plant on-screen is by Marysol Bermudes.
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Students Marysol and Joselyn and artist Gabriela Riveros filling in and matching up the panels.
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Joselyn adding detail to the plant.
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Joselyn, Diego, Marysol, and Brian working on four of the panels.

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Based on a drawing by student Isabel Castro.
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Painting based on a drawing by Marysol Bermudes.
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Gabi matching up the text.

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Final Design: Mock-up

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Once the students finished researching and drawing a variety of native crops and migratory species of butterflies that live in Wisconsin, we (Gabi and Jenie) got together to collage them together into a final composition.

Our goals:

  • creating a design that reflected our collaborative effort and unified our styles in one beautiful composition
  • creating a plan that made good use of the space and was practical for our supplies budget and time frame. We estimated 4 painting days and $800 for the mural supplies. You can see the breakdown of our supplies here.

Here is the final mock-up of our mural. Now we were ready to get supplies and start painting.

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The students’ and instructors’ drawings collaged together in Photoshop for the final design, to be 12 x 30 feet.
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We divided the design into 24 5×3 foot panels, the size of the cement boards we would be using. The plan was to set up a workflow with a projector for each of the panels and then space on the ground and floor to finish painting and detailing each panel.
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Final text design by Jenie Gao. We came to a consensus on the words, “Our Stories Share the Same Roots,” to drive the message of our mural.
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Photoshop mock-up of the location and scale of the mural once installed on the building.