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