2016 Mural: Journey Through the Dominican Republic

We  have finally completed our lovely 2016 mural. This year's mural club was extended to 7th-12th graders, and we worked for a LONG time on brainstorming ideas, individual sketches, voting, and combining all of our ideas to create (and get approved) one large sketch:

SKETCH PROCESS

Final Approved Sketch

After the sketch was approved, we got to work. Our mural combined different elements of the Dominican Republic. It has waterfalls, ocean, beach, architecture, foliage, flowers, trees and animals. We also chose to represent the Mirabal sisters in the form of 3 Dominican butterflies flying above the ocean.

PAINTING PROCESS








































FINAL MURAL:

6th Grade Candido Bido paintings

6th graders learned about the life and art of one of the most influential Dominican artists, Candido Bido. Then, we went through his body of work and discussed the similarities in his paintings (color, painting style, texture, women, etc.) and they each chose their favorite Bido painting to recreate in their own way.