The details are starting to fall into place. My students are feeling really comfortable with themselves and the group. They are working at such a fast pace that I sometimes have to think of new ways to keep them busy. My students are the cats pajama’s! As you look at the pictures below, you can [...]
Filed under: Community Art- Eugene Or by admin Date 5 November, 2008
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The color white was here and it allowed for all the tones to follow. I created color charts for each picture frame. I wanted them to understand what colors they needed for their sections and I wanted them to depend on themselves for creating colors. I always told them that I’m not responsible for the [...]
Filed under: Community Art- Eugene Or by admin Date 26 October, 2008
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My students and I were interviewed by KLCC/NPR about the mural. It was a chill day for an interview.
the first to speak was Melena. Scott was second, followed by Helms…after him was jennifer and Barbara. The girl on the left of the two is Lilly. Nicole was next and then Kirby was the last to [...]
Filed under: Community Art- Eugene Or by admin Date 22 October, 2008
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Well let’s see… Brushes, check. Containers? check. All colors accounted for? Yup! Okay….I got my black….wait a minute! Where’s my white??!?!??!? The good people at Nova color did their job perfectly. It looks like UPS messed up the delivery. After talking to Nova color; they said that they would ship my 5 gallon of white next [...]
Filed under: Community Art- Eugene Or by admin Date 19 October, 2008
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What do you do when you see something like this? Do you run in the other direction? I wouldn’t recommend that. We have a job to do. my art army showed up with a lot of excitement. This was the day that they were waiting for. But hold on…it’s not like you can just go [...]
Filed under: Community Art- Eugene Or by admin Date 16 October, 2008
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After a week long brainstorm session it looks like we have all come to a concise example of what the mural is going to look like. I’m really excited about this poject. Within a couple of days the wall will be primed; the scaffolding will be erected and paint will be ready for us to [...]
Filed under: Community Art- Eugene Or by admin Date 19 September, 2008
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In order to get my students on the same page I had them get into groups and bridge their ideas together. They had all agreed on a concrete list of themes. They were recycling, friendship, freedom, music and polar differences. Below you will see them drawing around the theme and then combining their ideas into [...]
Filed under: Community Art- Eugene Or by admin Date 18 September, 2008
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The challenge has been bringing multiple ideas into a cohesive design. There were many ways I was thinking about doing this. We thought about painting roadways to connect the many aspects of the town. We thought about wavy lines to tell the story. There were many avenues to choose from. I brought up the idea [...]
Filed under: Community Art- Eugene Or by admin Date 17 September, 2008
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Okay, Okay, Okay…I’ve been keeping this on the back burner even though both of my feet are planted in this program as we speak. I was hoping that the Press Release would be out by now; but it’s not. Here is a little run down as to what is happening at this moment (this was [...]
Filed under: Community Art- Eugene Or by admin Date 10 September, 2008
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