SITE

The site that we are putting our mural is on Summit and 16th.   This is a church and it has more advantages than our original site because we have places to store are supply's and wash are brushes so we don't have to take stuff on the with us when we go back to school. It is also on campus so we have places to go out to lunch. There is a learning center which gives us a place to chill and relax and there is also a pool table and TV's. We also have the advantage to work inside when its cold or raining. 

We would like to give a shout out to the people that have helped make this possible: Chris, Catherine, Clarence and anyone else that help us.

University Area Enrichment Association

The University Area Enrichment Association is the sponsor for our mural. They work for people living, working, volunteering, and attending school in the neighborhoods around the Ohio State University. They try to improve the quality of the people's lives by focusing on individual and community empowerment. They believe that important issues to the community include housing, economic development, the environment, health, and education. They also positively affect the community through leadership development and support. The Graham School Mural Project would like to thank the University Area Enrichment Association for their support.

craftmanship

Craftsmanship is very important, whether you are working on a personal or public piece. It is used for all types of work from writing to building, and it is an inexcusable element to making things work and such. Our mural needs to be the best we can do. We don’t have very much time but we should still take it slow and make a good product. We have been rushing and our product is a bit sloppy. The craftsmanship hasn’t been the very best so we need to slow down and pay attention to detail. Craftsmanship is essential because it will help decide how well the final piece looks. The effort put into this will be shown by how well the outcome is. We need to watch ourselves and peers and make sure that everyone is taking time and are doing the best they can do. This mural will reflect on us and we want that reflection to be excellent. This is a long and complicated process but the contribution you give to it can either make or break your name. I personally would like this mural to be one that everyone can enjoy, but if it is sloppy it won’t be appreciated. I think that if we all help each other out and just spend a little more time focusing on the project then this will be a great piece of work to remember.

revisions and directions

During the process of making the mural we have made many desicions as far as changing what the final product will look like and what our day is like at the site. One of the revisions we made at site is that we now have a job list. At the begining of each day we list and assign the jobs that need to be done each day. We started doing this because some of us were having trouble finding work to do, now if we need work we look at the list and there is almost always a job to do on it.

We've also made many creative changes to the mural. For instance on one of the 3D panels there was just a plain window, we instead decided to paint it as stained glass. Another thing we did was rework the colors of one of the flowers to make it stand out more. Something else was that in order to fill up space we decided to make more 3D elements (birds, animals, insects) that will be put in an empty space in the mural.


A big revision we did was the decision to make the mural what it looks like now. Because we didnt really have an idea for what the mural should look like Megan and Jodi came up with some ideas and we worked off of those until

we came up with what we have now. None of us were very happy about not really having creative privledges but we had been working for the past weeks to come up with an idea and didnt really have much and we had to get started so it was necesary.