Mural Project: Part 2

The start of the painting with colours was an exciting stage after the hard work of going around the outlines in black house paint. For the colours that we needed, we started with our primary colours and then mixed our own to suit the part of the mural we were working on. Then we were on to the painting, we had to be very careful that we didn't go out of the black lines. On our board, we first painted the leaves and after that dried, we painted the tree trunk. The key thing was to use layers and slowly build up from our base layers. The job of painting was very detailed and it was easy to become frustrated because we tended to make the same mistakes over and over. We put that down to the fact that we had to concentrate for long periods at a time. We reckon it was all worth it in the end because all of the boards in the mural look absolutely salubrious!





By Donna and Bronwyn

Mural Project: Part 1

During this stage we started painting the outlines with black paint. We used Resene house paint for this task. We got told to start in the middle so we wouldn't get paint on ourselves and work out to the side. We had to use a thin brush and carefully go over the pencil lines before we could paint in between with colours. The black outlining was a detailed task and took us 1 to 2 days just to complete.




by Dee and Rebecca

Mural Project: Introduction

We have recently started creating a mural for our school grounds. We have done this with the help of Mr. Ray Stoddart who is an artist and ex-art adviser. Our mural is being designed by students and will depict the things that we see as important to us in and around our school. It will consist of 3 large panels and 5 smaller panels. Four of the smaller panels will show the native trees that represent our school houses which are; Koromiko, Puriri, Rata and Totora. The 3 larger panels will show various other aspects of school life.
A strip of Kowhaiwhai (a maori pattern) will run through the bottom of each panel linking them together.
This first stage involved a lot of planning, discussion and decision making about design and content. We took photos of various points of interest around the school to assist us. Once we were happy we then divided our boards up into grids and proceeded to draw our designs in pencil onto them. This was intensive and painstaking work and took about 3 days.

Once the mural is finished it will be mounted in the school grounds for everyone to enjoy.