A Blank Canvas

Storage space is always at a premium in schools so to create more space for sports gear, back in 2017, we purchased a 40' container and placed it against the school hall on the end of the newest of our hardcourts.

It was a blank canvas crying out to be decorated. I asked the Yr 7&8 students if they thought painting a sports mural on the container would be something some of them would like to be involved in.
We talked over several options and arrived at the idea of silhouettes of various sports people caught in action.
The process involved dropping the photo of the container into a drawing programme, in this case Keynote, and then overlaying selected images from Google and arranging them along the container.

We knew the container was 2.4m tall so by adding horizontal lines at 300mm spacing we ended up with a grid made up of the lines and the container's vertical ribs.

We did the same with the end of the container.

Using the grid to help position them, the images were pencilled onto the "canvas" and then painted. First the outline and then filled in.

Here are Damien and Junior, 2 of the 10 artists involved, hard at work during the filling in process.

We've nearly completed the project! Just TJ to finish filling in his BMX rider, everyone to paint a second coat and then sign their work.

Excellent work Team!