DIY Week 5: Finishing up Mural #1

Since I was busy working at the Culture Fair on Friday, I committed four hours of my Saturday evening to finish up, from 3pm-7:30pm. I don't think yesterday's work was as hard as the week before, since all I really had to do was paint in the empty spaces in between and add more details. Here was what I accomplished the week before:

And here is my finished mural:

It may not be the greatest mural of all; however, since I put over 100% effort into this along with blood, sweat, and tears, I'm very proud of myself and I loved my first experience. My biggest mistakes was the verse, which as you can see, goes up and down and all over the place, aha. 

With my first experience I learned to be more patient and that I need to plan ahead when or before I paint the memory verse over the picture. Next time I'll wait for the paint to dry first, before adding in the memory verse.Or I can just wait another week.

For my upcoming mural, I plan on painting a group of people standing in the sunset, holding each others hands up. The theme for this mural will be worship and I'll be spending some time during the week looking for the perfect theme verse. This mural will most likely be painted in the main children's ministry room.On the other hand, if my plan don't come into play, I'll work on a mural of Abraham and Issac and include  a memory verse about faith.

I've also decided to lower my working hours from 3 hours to 2 and a half hours since it's hard for me to commit so much with homework and other ongoing activities. Along with this, I don't feel safe working alone for so long. I want to work while the sun is still up and when there is more people around. 

DIY Week 2-4

My DIY for week 2-3 was delayed since I wasn't able to contact the children's ministry director and talk to her about my plans for the children's ministry room. I was finally able to talk to her last Sunday, March 10, about my plans and she told me that I can do whatever I want, just as long as it fits with the biblical themes and that all the supplies would be made available for me. I believe that there are about 5 rooms to paint, 2 walls each room.

So with this great news and things settled down, I decided that I would work on my DIY project every Friday for three hours, usually from 5pm-8pm, excluding the time to prepare all the materials and clean up. I started painting in one of the children's ministry rooms on the Ides of March, Friday March 15. This room is for the toddlers-preschool boys. For this room I decided to paint David and Goliath and use the bible verse from Phillipians 4:13, "I can do everything through him who gives me strength."

The wall was a baby blue. I first sketched out my drawing using a brown marker. Then I outlined everything with black paint. Next, I started mixing all the other colors and started painting as much as I could with the time I had left. For my first experience, what I finished in three hours worth wasn't too bad, however I know that I could have done better. Whatever happens, I shall fix any mistakes or flaws this Friday.

For my first cartoony mural experience, this wasn't so bad. Since it was my first time and I was flying solo, I personally thought that I did a really good job, except on David's face... A pat on the back for me haha. I look forward to this Friday and I really hope that I can finish up the whole wall so that the next week I can get started on the next wall.

Some negatives to this was how scary and lonely it is to be painting by myself. The room I was pairing in is like the portals at school, a little far from the church and main children's ministry room. Also that room is super stuffy, mainly because I did not open the windows since I was scared that someone might pop by and give me more than just a little scare. Regarding paint supplies, the majority of paint bottles were empty so I'm hoping that I'll have a day where I can just sit down and sort out all the paint. I need to calculate out how much paint I have and how long it's going to last me so I can notify Lana and then someone could grab me some more paint or I could just go do it myself.