My Music Mural - Installation Design
Design Challenge:
My high school was a very blank canvas, during my senior year I embarked to remedy this. I made appointments with the principle and the school board and pitched the idea of beautifying the school with six different mural proposals. With my approved pitch, I received funding for one mural. It needed to reflect my experiences at the school and inspire the next generation. Due to my Marching Band background, I selected a space of 9’x49’ in the music department an went to work.
Solution:
The solution found me working every lunch hour of my senior year in the CAD classroom designing this mural, Microsoft Paint and in AutoCAD (because I had not been introduced to Adobe yet). After a composition had been tested on plotters I worked with a local sign company in my hometown to vinyl cut outs of the figures. These life size prints were applied with an adhesive and a heat gun. The next challenge was to incorporate the orange swirls. By using an old over head projector, I projected intricate orange designs and traced them onto the wall. After this process was complete I then spent two weeks of my summer mixing and hand painting it in.
