Mural Painting

Progress Pics:

Planning it out! Everyone got their clothes covered in the red chalk.

Progress after the first day. OxO

 Nice pics of the two different brains and the ribs.

Still so much left to go. ;.;

All done! (a full picture of the mural is coming soon)

Reflection:

I think that what my group had to overcome the most was perfectionism. Each and every one of us laboured over every detail of the mural to get the feathers of the pigeons right, to make the ribcages look the same, to artfully render the hands, to paint the brain just so. While this resulted in what I consider to be a pretty fantastic piece considering that we had never worked together before, probably had never worked in a team for a mural before, and that I really dislike using acrylic paint (this one wasn't so bad, perhaps it's elementary and middle school art teachers putting a block in my mind against acrylic. Well, that and this acrylic paint wasn't shiny like other acrylic paint. Also: I love Payne's Grey. I prefer it over black by a longgg shot. The fact that the whole palette is based on Payne's Grey is probably throwing me off from my normal aversion to acrylic paint.)

However, we also went way over the deadline and didn't get to go to the American Museum of Natural History, which would have been a great opportunity for those of us who would draw animals for their animation.

Still, I appreciate that it looks amazing, although that will make it all the harder to split up. I, personally, really want to keep the head and brain I painted. I wouldn't mind having some of the lovely greys in the hands or the electric-y grey in the ribcage or some of the purple-y greys that were thrown together in a final attempt to get it done.

Some anatomical things could be changed (the ribs weren't quite realistic, nor was the heart, or the brain size, or the profiles not being quite the same. (They aren't supposed to be the same. I gave the two very different noses in my own sketch, the scan of which is incorporated into the drawing below. The brains being different sizes and the heads being different sizes was intentional. They are supposed to be different people. What is the point of communicating with a clone of your self? One of the profiles could even be some other hominid species, one that we need a brain link to connect to. The possibilities are endless. They weren't shaded the same way; you are invited to punch me and Diana for that, but you will courteously abstain, of course.) More interesting painting could be done in the background of the subway/sound waves. I had some nice purples/greys/oranges/yellows or something at some point, but I probably should have continued them throughout the mural.

All in all, it was a fun, tedious project, and we had a lot of laughs as we worked together. Really, really, great laughs.

Really, really, great.