March 27th Results: The Finishing Touches

The Diversitree is fully grown! Here are some images of the mural in it's state of completion:

 If you would like to attend the Community Engagement Conference to hear about (and become involved in) this and other wonderful projects happening at Sand Creek High School please email me: mbrandt@d49.org

March 26th Results

In addition to nearly finishing the mural, we have also named it:

The Diversitree

March 25th Results

Mugen assisted us today:

March 24th Results

March 23rd Results

As you can see, we made a ton of progress today with the help of 10 volunteers:

Paint On Wall!

Check out these photos of recent progress; we started an underpainting!

More Progress

Here is a picture of the blank wall that will host the mural:

We gridded the image out and projected parts of it with the laptop yesterday; March 7:

We traced the entire tree outline onto the wall:

Also, paint has been donated by Steve Wood of Concrete Couch as well as our consulting muralist Robin Coalson. Thank you!

Final Mural Drawings

Our very fantastic and dedicated artists have created these images for the final mural drawings.

In this image, flags of world nations are used as a border; though it looks amazing we decided as a group that it would be too hard to execute the mural with 196 distinct flags as a border because they would need to be around 2" wide... Too small. This image should give a good idea of approximate color, though the final will include a sunset as the background:

This is the image we are going to base our grid off of. The main branches and layout will follow this image faithfully:

This image is used to plan out the details in the foliage:

Here are several closeups of different sections:

(top left)

(top center)

(top right)

 (entire bottom)

Additional update:
We have acquired generous paint donations from Concrete Couch and Robin Coalson. We have also spoke with custodial/maintenance staff at SCHS and gained approval for the project.

Updated Agenda

Currently several artists are working on our detailed sketches/preliminary drawings for the mural. The mural will be painted over spring break.
Here are the dates:
March 23rd - March 30th from 9 AM - 4 PM
Each day we will have a specific goal. If we finish the goal early then we will end the day early. Plan on bringing a lunch, or $5 to pitch in for pizza.

Here are our current goals:
March 23: Paint the sky
March 24: Paint the wood portions of the tree
March 25: Foliage - 25% Complete
March 26: Foliage - 50% Complete
March 27: Foliage - 75% Complete
March 28: Foliage - 100% Complete
March 29: Detail work/touchups
March 30: Extra day if needed: Detail work/touchups

If you know anybody who would like to help with the actual painting of the mural please have them contact me: mbrandt@d49.org

We have decided to include the following activities/passions in the foliage, though we are open to more that we may be leaving out:

art club

math--equation

music--notes

Anime club--

Muggle Quittich/Harry Potter club

video game club-- console

rap club

operation smile club

yu-gi-oh club

community and service club

eco scorps

optimist club

choir

accapella

orchestra

Dance team

cheerleading

stuco

yearbook

journalism

Step team

ROTC

Marching band

Field hockey

swimming

football

basketball

soccer

tennis

volleyball

base ball

golf

fresbee golf (frolf)

cannoeing

culture night

Selected Mural Design

Here are preliminary sketches created by Robin Coalson. They are based off of the group's ideas generated during the brainstorm meeting that took place February 6th.

The tree will have names of countries flowing up from the roots. There will be faces that subtly appear in the negative spaces between the branches. The detail shown below shows how different passions of students can be included in the foliage. This will be done with different values of greens so that it is also subtle. The background will be a brilliant sunset.

Agenda:

• Plan a schedule for painting during Sand Creek High School's spring break. March 23rd - April 7th.
• Divide the sketch into a grid drawing and create detail.
• Start gathering paints, drop-cloths, and brushes.

Basic paints we need:

Cerulean Blue

Ultramarine

Cadmium Red Medium

Alizerean Crimson

Burnt Sienna

Burnt Umber

Cad yellow medium

Mural Dimensions:

103” x 482”