The Red Hunting Cap

Hello again, We have another mural update. JK, there’s really nothing left to say about the mural, so now we’re going to talk about all the other random (but mostly art-related) things happening in our lives. For example, this summer we became members at our town’s art gallery (theW Gallery in Wayland, check it out!), or, more specifically, we became chairs on the gallery board and are now in charge of running the student program/curating the student exhibit of the gallery. We were pretty psyched about doing this, but (obviously) we ran into some issues at first: Even though we’ve been working with with the gallery over the summer, because their entire board had to agree on how the “student exhibit” of the gallery would run, we finalized the whole curating process pretty recently. As a result, we couldn’t get as many pieces as we wanted to from other art students at our school. We only had about 12 pieces to hang up on Friday, but hopefully we'll get more in the couple of week...

Scraping paint off a wall is about as exciting as watching paint dry on a wall, especially if you’re scraping it off with your fingernails. Let us explain. School started a couple of weeks ago and during the first week of school, Ms. Snow approached us to “discuss the mural.” After congratulating us on our artistic accomplishments, she respectfully inquired as to why the paint was not only on the mural part of the wall, but also on the wall part of the wall. Unfortunately, we had no choice but to admit the truth: we did not tape everything around the mural while we were painting. To clarify, we really did try our best. The tape, however, only covered the section of the wall directly touching the mural, and the parts a little further away were left open to brutal attacks from splatter painted stars and dripping paint globs.  Shockingly, our accidental vandalism of school property didn’t go over too well with some of the authority figures, so we were asked to--wait for it--...