My painting keeps taking me in new directions and here I go again… I volunteered to help paint murals in the new CPS building in Peoria, AZ and ended up being handed the project – several rooms and helpers who don’t paint, hmmm. Well, with the VERY small budget they gave me, I decided to hit up Sherwin Williams for donations. I’m a loyal customer and hoped they could help. They did indeed. They gave me about $120 of paint without batting an eye (thanks guys)!
I’m starting in the Crisis Room – where the families go first and wait to find out what will happen. When that room is finished I will move on to the supervised visitation rooms. There are 7 of these rooms and there is 1, possibly 2 artists coming to do a room each- the rest I will do (any artist volunteers out there that want to help?). I’m designing a couple rooms at a time to get approval and with my schedule I’m only there 4-5 hours a week. This could take a while…but it WILL get done.
The rooms to be painted are quite bleak – plain walls, a table and chairs, few toys… I’m designing rooms for toddlers up to teenagers in hopes of offering a little distraction, some hope, and maybe even a smile. I’ll post the finished rooms on here but you can follow the progress on Facebook if you’d like -that’s when I don’t forget my camera at least… like last week.
Here is the Before of the Crisis Room:
Hi Tina
This room looks so depressing. I think if I hadn’t had some sort of a crisis before I entered it, I’d have one by the time I left!
You can’t fail to impove it for people.
Good luck
No kidding! I’ll get back there Friday or Saturday this week and finish up this room then it’s on to the next…