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I finally got around to making a little video about Myr painting her Master Painting on the wall as school -- which I talked about way back when. As she painted, she took a picture every now and then.

So here you go. A Master in A Minute.

Myria is a very good artist. She good enough to qualify for the AP Art class next year. I'm sure I don't post enough on all the wonderful work she does. But there are times when bragging is a necessary.

Our school district has an excellent arts program. The choir and band program does a lot of great things and the fine arts program has both a drawing/painting and 3D tracks that funnel into AP related courses. And it provides the kids with good connections if they want to go on as a Art Major in both Fine Arts and Liberal Arts schools.

One of the other things that the Arts Department started several years ago was a program where several students would work for a week during the summer to paint a 4' x 6' reproduction mural of a Master Artist's work on the walls of the school. It's a great program. The teachers write for grants to cover the cost of the paint, the framing and the plaques. Here's some examples of the work (click for a bigger pic).




They also did smaller "Department Portraits" which hang on the cafeteria wall. Each of these is a portrait of someone who is important to each of the departments in the school, such as Freud for the Psychology department.


Last year, instead of wall murals, the selected artists did reproductions of Normal Rockwell paintings. These were still 4' x 6', but they were painted on canvas and will be hung high on the walls of the gymnasium. They were beautiful but I don't have any pictures of them.

Anyhow, this year Myr was chosen to paint a mural. YAY! See the letter:


Myr is painting The Great Wave off Kanagawa:


She started today and is booked to paint 8 am - 4 pm today through Friday. Plus she is signed up for a "How to a Write College Entrance Essay" class that runs from 6 - 9 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights.

Her mural is going on a wall on the second floor of the school, near the Foreign Language Department. She has an electrical outlet so she can plug in her stereo, there's a window nearby that can be opened. She just texted me saying: There is a breeze. Life is good.

I can't disagree with her.