In-progress Summer 2013

Mural Schedule

This mural will be completed as weather and time allow by summer 2013.  The mural steps include projecting the drawing, painting the mural, and a final protective varnish.

Prescott College student Eli Martin is working on the mural over the summer as part of a Mural Apprenticeship independent study course.  Eli is pursuing his BFA in Visual Arts, and has taken several Prescott College art courses including the Fresco Mural Painting course with artist Josephine Gibbs.

Eli Martin and Amanda Maas help trace the projected drawing on the wall, June 2012

Mural Description

The Children’s Garden Mural represents the inherent individuality and diversity of all living things.  It is intended to be an interpretive identification guide for local bird species, and a welcoming image for The Children’s Garden.  The image includes thirty-five bird species that are local to The Children’s Garden area of Prescott.  The birds flock together, some carrying twigs in their beaks, toward the birdhouse in the center.  The birdhouse is modeled after The Children’s Garden building, perched on the trunk of an elm tree, referencing the tree in front of the school.  The wall, east facing, includes compass points that teach the relative cardinal directions: West, North, East, and South.  The mural will be painted in neutral earth tones.  The completed mural will be accompanied with a full-color guidebook and an interpretive plaque, as a learning tool for bird identification.

Mural Proposal Drawing, 2011

*Year-round Birds – fully rendered

Bluebird, Western

Bushtit

Chickadee, Mountain

Creeper, Brown

Dove, Mourning

Finch, House

Flicker, Northern

Hawk, Red-tailed

Jay, Scrub

Jay, Steller’s

Nuthatch, Pygmy

Nuthatch, White-breasted

Raven, Common

Robin, American

Siskin, Pine

Titmouse, Bridled

Towhee, Rufous-sided

Woodpecker, Hairy

Wren, Bewick’s

Summer Birds – silhouettes

Flycatcher, Ash-throated

Grosbeak, Black-headed

Pewee, Western Wood

Redstart, Painted

Swallow, Violet-green

Tanager, Hepatic

Tanager, Western

Towhee, Rufous-sided

Vireo, Solitary

Warbler, Lucy’s

Warbler, Virginia’s

Wren, House (fully rendered, with chicks)

Winter Birds – outlined

Junco, Dark-eyed

Kinglet, Ruby-crowned

Sapsucker, Red-naped

Sparrow, White-crowned

*Carl Tomoff.  Birds of Prescott, Arizona: annotated checklist of the relative abundance and seasonal status of Prescott-area birds.  Highlands Center for Natural History, 2000.

This bird list is specific to the White Spar Campground, nearby the Children’s Garden.