GeJiu Service Trip-Part 5: Painting the Mural #2
The Kunming International Academy annual spring service trip, a
chance for our high school students to obtain service hours (a
requirement for graduation), took us to an orphanage outside the city of
GeJiu, about a five-hour bus ride south-southeast of Kunming. This is
the fifth installment in a series of picture about that trip. This
particular set of photos looks at how our KIA students served the
members of the orphanage by beautifying the special needs play area with one of three
murals.
The designers and creators of this vision had one major benefit that the entrance wall mural workers did not: a clean, painted surface on which to start. It probably also helped that the entire wall on which these painters were working was considerably smaller than that of the entrance.
Because very little preparation was needed, the students working in the special needs ward begin immediately on the first day sketching out their plan for the wall. Above, Sean (grade 12, Korea) uses a "straight" mop handle to draw the basic pattern for the wall.
Once the basic pattern had been set, the next phase began. Students used brushes and white gloves to spread paint in the design. Sean holds the yellow paint for Katy (grade 10, Korea), and Jonathan (grade 11, Korea) spreads paint with his hand. The strength of the blue wall meant that multiple coats were necessary.
Parts of the design required both broad strokes and fine. Paul (grade 9, Korea) uses a wide brush to fill in the larger design, leaving the finer details for later. While the mural on the wall utilized primary and secondary colors, the painting on the special needs wall also brought in the use of pastels, colors that young children enjoy.
Once the broad and fine strokes were completed the first time, the second and third coats of paint brought real life to the picture. Katy (background) uses a fine brush to touch up section of the mural, while an unidentified student works in the foreground to make the picture more clear.
Even though this mural is small compared to the entrance wall, it was still impossible to get a picture of the entire design in one photo. However, once completed, a kind of rainbow with stars, hearts, musical notation, and elephants invited the young special needs children to their play area.
The designers and creators of this vision had one major benefit that the entrance wall mural workers did not: a clean, painted surface on which to start. It probably also helped that the entire wall on which these painters were working was considerably smaller than that of the entrance.
Because very little preparation was needed, the students working in the special needs ward begin immediately on the first day sketching out their plan for the wall. Above, Sean (grade 12, Korea) uses a "straight" mop handle to draw the basic pattern for the wall.
Once the basic pattern had been set, the next phase began. Students used brushes and white gloves to spread paint in the design. Sean holds the yellow paint for Katy (grade 10, Korea), and Jonathan (grade 11, Korea) spreads paint with his hand. The strength of the blue wall meant that multiple coats were necessary.
Parts of the design required both broad strokes and fine. Paul (grade 9, Korea) uses a wide brush to fill in the larger design, leaving the finer details for later. While the mural on the wall utilized primary and secondary colors, the painting on the special needs wall also brought in the use of pastels, colors that young children enjoy.
Once the broad and fine strokes were completed the first time, the second and third coats of paint brought real life to the picture. Katy (background) uses a fine brush to touch up section of the mural, while an unidentified student works in the foreground to make the picture more clear.
Even though this mural is small compared to the entrance wall, it was still impossible to get a picture of the entire design in one photo. However, once completed, a kind of rainbow with stars, hearts, musical notation, and elephants invited the young special needs children to their play area.
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