Mural Painting

Today Lucie Vovk and I painted a mural together at school, we had been planning to do this for a while but had never gotten round to it before now.

We were planning to paint something like this:

However when we arrived at the art room at 9:30 we discovered there was a slightly more limited collection of colours to pick from. We shrugged it off and decided to do black and white stripes in the background instead, with 'Breathe' in red or yellow.

We laboriously pulled our small cart loaded with cans of paint up (seemingly endless) flights of stairs until we reached the wall. We chose two panels by the cafeteria to paint on, and lined up the cans along the wall.
The lines were easy to paint, but kept dripping. We both realised that this looked rather artistic, and decided to splatter paint it with black and white. We were pleased with our work and chose to take it a step further. We splattered painted red and pink as well (painting some plants and .... the ground in the process).

Close up of the splatter

One panel of our mural

We cleaned up while we waited for the mural to dry and then moved on to the word 'Breathe'. We did this in yellow (which was hard as the colour kept turning into a dismal grey).
One final brushstroke and we stepped back, smiling at our result.
Others may think that it's ugly and messy, but we like it just fine.

This is the final mural:

The white symbolises life, and the black death. The red symbolises hate, and the pink love. Finally, the yellow (it doesn't look yellow in the picture, but it is) symbolises light and hope.

It took us around 2 and a half hours to paint.

My hand