Mural Makeover for CPS

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: