This semester, I started independent work for VAM 30. For this course, we were assigned to think of project we could work on throughout the entirety of the semester, completely independently. For my project, I chose to create a mural for a client. Throughout high school, I’ve been developing my skills in painting at school and at home. However, I haven’t really challenged myself when it comes to painting and I wanted to take VAM 30 as the opportunity to do so. Originally, my client for this project was going to be the school, creating a mural for the academy area, but I was given the opportunity to instead create a mural for Alberta Heath Services’ Centre for Mental Health and Addiction. I welcomed this opportunity openly, as I preferred the content that would be included in the mural, and the work done at the centre is very important to me.
Because of this change from my original plans, I had to coordinate with AHS when the semester began. This process took the majority of the first three weeks of the semester. The process involved a lot of emailing back and forth to ensure I knew the client’s desired content, dimensions and spacial requirements for the mural. Going through this process of collaboration has taught me a lot about working with clients in the art field. I have only ever done art for other people on small scales—I’ve never had to work in the confines of specific requirements. In the future (as I do hope to be doing art as a career in some form), when working with clients, I want to be more efficient in my communication with them, in order to have the information I need right off the bat. During the process of getting information, I was mainly brainstorming in the first two weeks. I collected references and put them into a folder so that I could decide what I wanted and mix some elements from my chosen pictures. By the third week I had a strong idea of what I wanted the mural to look like, and with the dimensions finally chosen, I was able to create a rough concept in Procreate of how the painting will be laid out. Being a trip-tic, I added lines on my digital canvas to ensure that I was not adding small or important elements where the canvases split. However, in the actual painting, more planning for this will be required, as the digital concept doesn’t include every little detail that will be on the mural. Everything is finally ready to go and I will begin painting on Monday. I'm really excited to get going, as I know this project will be a process of a lot of challenges and lessons as an artist. I've never done anything quite like it so the experience will be totally new—I've done series, large paintings and landscapes, but never a trip-tic and certainly nothing this large. Being the sole focus during my time in academy this semester, it will be interesting to see how doing one project for the next three months will affect me. I will continue updating my process and challenges on this blog in order to give insight into what doing this project will be like. If nothing else, it's definitely going to be an undertaking.
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AuthorLeah is an eighteen-year-old aspiring Canadian artist who enjoys drawing, painting, and photography. |