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.