My last few posts have been full of lessons and projects from my lastest residency at Walterville Elementary. But we also had a main attraction at the Corie-art-room-takeover: an 8'x20' mural!! Here's how it worked:
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This mural project was created with all 190 students, grades K-5 at Walterville Elementary School in Walterville, OR. The process was typical of a mural residency with me and went as follows:
• Initial planning meeting with staff to discuss their ideas for the residency and mural theme. They decided on an "Oregon" theme.
• Teachers had every student make drawings depicting their ideas of Oregon, and sent them all to me!
• I took all student's drawings and took inventory of the images and incorporated their ideas into an overall mural design.
• We completed the mural in a little over 2 weeks. Each classroom got to have about 8 sessions with me, and most children painted on the mural multiple times. I taught grade level appropriate lessons for each class to work on, focusing on the techniques of master artists throughout history. While students were all working on these projects, I rotated small groups of children to paint the mural.
Here it is, in a few pictures. I can't wait until the panels are installed onto their wall so I can show you the whole thing, put together! Keep an eye out for that in the next few weeks ;)
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| Showing the kiddos how to lay paint down |
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| Putting apples in the apple orchard! |
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| Stayin' busy making Jim Dine-style Valentines while a couple painters are going in the background. |
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| Making a starry starry night (heh, art teacher pun for the win!) |
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| Cutest ever. |
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| So many trees!! |
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| Adding architectural details to the city |
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| Done! But not yet installed. This is only about 3.5 of the 5 panels we made. |
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| From Left to Right: Oregon Coast--> River--> Rural Oregon--> Forest-y Mountains--> Cityscape |
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