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Mural Work in DC

Posted in Work » Swim on May 9, 2008 at 1:01 AM

My friend Lacey told me that Servathon DC was looking for mural artists, and being that I hadn't ever done mural work (outside of Artomatic last year) I signed right up.

The project took place at Sharpe Health School on 13th street NW. They take care of students with a range of learning, physical, and mental disabilities, so giving them some fish on their walls was the least I could do.

Click on any of the pictures below to see large versions.

Part 1:

Sharpe Health School Mural: Phase 1


I had gone in the day before to the actual event to sketch in the fish with a super sweet large Sharpie. The next morning I started adding coats of orange.

Part 2:

Sharpe Health School Mural: Phase 2


After the first coat was done I was joined by a couple of volunteers and we did the second coat.

Part 3:

Sharpe Health School Mural: Final Phase


Once that dried (which was pretty much instantaneous cause it was about 85 degrees in that room), I went back and did all the detail work.

So all said and done, it was just about 7 hours of work. Good Karma all around. Apparently they're going to get a fish tank for the room now.

(Thanks Flickr for shrinking my 3000 pixel wide images down to 1/2 their size when I uploaded them... what the heck?)

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