Check it out! Big congratulations go out to Mark Ball at Art Supply Warehouse in Westminster, CA who earlier in October held a giant 3-day sale. To keep artistic customers engaged, he sponsored a Collaborative Art Project event. The point of the project was to create a mural that would be installed on the roof of the store when complete. Here’s how the project worked:
1) The store’s manager developed the overall plan. There was a design created that had to be drawn out.
2) Each participant was given a 14×14 stretched canvas with a sketch of the design of their portion of the mural. Novices could paint a “background”, and more accomplished artists did faces and details.
3) There were 156 squares that made up the design, and each needed to be painted.
4) Anyone could participate. 100 or so were painted Friday, the balance on Saturday.
5) Paint was donated by Grumbacher (Academy Acrylic) and Sanford (Paint Markers)
6) The design has a Halloween theme with images of famous monsters of movie fame. For fun the designer added a portrait of the store’s founder Howard Demar, who is depicted in the center of the piece.
7) When completed, the pieces were assembled painstakingly high above the store on the roof for all passing motorists to enjoy.
Check out this video slide show of the making and installing of the mural: