An Old Friend

After seeing that every day this week coming up has to be used to its fullest potential, I realized that I need to get right to work!

“Okay, time to buy a panel.”

“Wait.”

“Where do I get one?”

“Ohhh let me ask Mary Beth!”

           --> I called Mary Beth and after we were done catching up, I asked her where she got her panels from when she did a mural in an elementary school here in town. She told me to go talk to the people at Cayuga Lumber, and tell them that she sent me. She also told me that the price for a panel with be around $100…..But maybe I could talk them into a deal ;)

Red flag 6

How much time did you spend on your project?
this has been a really bad week for me with this project. my friend erin who is now doing the sketch will have it done tomorrow before my meeting with Mr. Mills. I am still stressing about it because its not set in stone and i still need to think about things that could go wrong (like her being sick tomorrow:X !) Also today after school i plan to stop at some Hardware stores to see about the cost of paint so that i would say would take about 2 hours.
So in total i would say i spent 45 min meeting with Ms. M, I'm guessing 45 min with Mr. Mills (thats what it has been in the past) 4 hours in total working on editing my blog and the rest of the time stressing about getting things approved. UGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What did you do that was hands on? 
Paint cost shopping and talking to Mary Beth (library mural) about seeing if i could use some of her scrap panels that she has left over

What research did you do?
Tomorrow i will know who to contact about getting my image approved and location

Did you meet with your mentor? What did you talk about?
Yes i met with M.s M and we mainly talked about what i should ask Mr. Mills during my meeting tomorrow and that i need to get my image approved ASAP!!!!!

Do you have at least 3 journal entries?
Yes, i have them written out, and i will get to that this weekend

Were you in class this week?
Yeppp:)

What are your plans for next week?
talking to the people i need to in order to get my mural approved, and if that happens paint shopping. i dont want to buy pain until the image is approved and set in stone.

Ithaca Journal

Today, as usual I showed up late to my first class (Economics) and i was surprised about the comment made by my teacher.When i walked in he was in the middle of telling the class what they were doing for the day, and when i walked in he stopped to tell me he say me in the paper this morning. I had no clue what he was talking about but then he asked me if i was doing something with murals. At that moment i was filled with excitement because the article about the library mural had arrived!!!! So i told EVERYONE that day even Ms. M and she was very proud to see my hard work pay off and to get recognised for it :D! So below i attached the article that was online and i hung the paper copy in my room.

http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20110405/NEWS02/110405014/Work-Library-mural-continues?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Cimg%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cp

In this picture I'm working on a mural in the Public Library in the city of Ithaca. Some of my work on this mural includes painting various parts of the mountains, trees, water, and landscape. The person on the scaffolding is Mary Beth, the person in charge of the mural. While we were painting with each other, I asked her for advice on my own mural. The techniques used with this mural may be helpful when im in the designing process of my own. There are a lot of steps that need to be taken before you start painting on the wall.
Steps to making this mural

• Sketch out design of mural
• Sketch on grid paper to make an image that can be scaled to larger sizes
• Use a chalk-line to make the grid on the wall, then trace over with pencil
• Use scale image to copy onto the wall in pencil
• Paint the background, then move up to the foreground

Community

Today I went to the public library for the opportunity to be apart of a mural that will be displayed in the library. The theme of the mural is fictional characters such as dragons, fairies, and stories like Hansel and Gretel. The development session that day was very useful for me because i learned about copy writing and how you can take other peoples work to every last detail but you can alter it to your style. The women in charge if this mural is very interesting to me. Marybeth is her name and she has many wonderful murals that she told us about around town. Her job is to create murals. Thats SO cool! Just think about painting murals as a career, who wouldn't love to do that??? Anyways, we got a lot done in the hour and a half we were there for. We talked about the layout of the project and we marked on the wall a grid that is scaled on paper and used chalk string and pencils to trace where the chalk was. Since i am so tall i was used to get the high spot on the wall to trace and i was able to get on a scaffold (VERY SCARY>_<) and learned how to assemble it and everything! I do have a video of me up on the scaffold but it on a friends phone but i plan to get it on my blog ASAP.

We weren't able to finish the tracing of the gird so this week when i have time i can stop by when ever and help and same with the other kids involved in the mural. At least once during the week i plan to meet her in the morning to see what i can do to help and work around my conflicts.I am very excited to tell Ms. M about my amazing experience tomorrow during our mentor meeting.

Opportunity For Community Mural Painting

Today when I saw my mentor in the hallway, she told me she had an exciting opportunity for me. When she was reading a newspaper, she found an article about our county public library wanting help from teens in the community for a mural painting project at the library. The design of the mural is still in the process of completion, but there is an idea development session that will be held in the library in the programming room from 3 - 4:30 pm on March 13th. I called the Youth Services Department to register my name to attend this meeting.