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Back around the middle of February a friend and I were asked to start thinking about a design for the wall on the front of the art block at our sixth form. The previous mural had been up for almost 10 years and it was high time for a refresh. In June, after the exams were over, six of my friends and I began the design and finally worked out after much scratching and hissing what to paint. We had the go-ahead from the headmaster and painted hard for the 10 school days that remained.

The design links in many aspects of the school and artists. On the left there is a tree design with two landscapes, one in the tree trunks and one in the negative space around; The blue skied landscape is Herefordshire, where the school is; The orange skied landscape is Uganda as the school has strong links there with a school called Kisiki college. The tree design itself links in the Forest of Dean, a nearby area where a lot of the students come from. On the right is an image of Ross-on-Wye as seen from the river Wye. The log design is inspired by David Hockney and the figure sat next to them are from Georges-Pierre Seurat's 'Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'. Waterhouse's 'The Lady of Shalott' is also afloat on the river with a Turneresque sky looming above.

The area is 2.6m x 7.2m and we painted it with Dulux Weathershield paint mixed with some acrylic for fine tuning colours. Seven of us designed it and 28 people came forward to help paint as we gained momentum with it.

There is an accompanying time lapse on the way too!

Description
Back around the middle of February a friend and I were asked to start thinking about a design for the wall on the front of the art block at our sixth form. The previous mural had been up for almost 10 years and it was high time for a refresh. In June, after the exams were over, six of my friends and I began the design and finally worked out after much scratching and hissing what to paint. We had the go-ahead from the headmaster and painted hard for the 10 school days that remained.

The design links in many aspects of the school and artists. On the left there is a tree design with two landscapes, one in the tree trunks and one in the negative space around; The blue skied landscape is Herefordshire, where the school is; The orange skied landscape is Uganda as the school has strong links there with a school called Kisiki college. The tree design itself links in the Forest of Dean, a nearby area where a lot of the students come from. On the right is an image of Ross-on-Wye as seen from the river Wye. The log design is inspired by David Hockney and the figure sat next to them are from Georges-Pierre Seurat's 'Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'. Waterhouse's 'The Lady of Shalott' is also afloat on the river with a Turneresque sky looming above.

The area is 2.6m x 7.2m and we painted it with Dulux Weathershield paint mixed with some acrylic for fine tuning colours. Seven of us designed it and 28 people came forward to help paint as we gained momentum with it.

There is an accompanying time lapse on the way too!