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| One fine looking lloydie, who wished to remain anonymous, posing with former LC. |
That wood paneling was very old though, so last year Housing finally decided to remove it and blessed us with fresh, blindingly white walls. Like, sterile white. This has unfortunately caused more than just a few lloydies to walk into LC and instantly become dazed and confused, suddenly unsure where they were or what they were doing. Clearly, this needed to be fixed.
I've been wanting to paint a mural in Lloyd since I was a tiny frosh, and while originally I planned to just paint a smaller mural in one of the upstairs alleys, this seemed like the perfect opportunity to leave permanently finger painted narwhals all over the walls bless Lloyd house with my artistic finesse. So, last summer with the approval of excomm, I painted a mural inspired by Fantasia 2000's Firebird Suite. (If you haven't seen Fantasia 2000 or the original before, I highly recommend it!) While the walls were still newly painted, some lloydies thought of the idea of painting LC as an extension of the already existing mural of autumn trees on the connecting stairwell, and I figured that Firebird Suite fit the concept perfectly. Anyway enough of my inane background info- here's some pretty pictures! (:
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Uber white walls! ): So sad and barren.  |
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| Finished wall! With special help from Laura Conwill! Isn't it beautifullll? (just kiddinggggg.) |
I only had about 3 weeks to paint all of LC before going home for the summer, which was kind of stressful. Under normal circumstances it wouldn't be too big of a deal, since you'd think I could just finish up when the school year rolls by, but since I was leaving to study abroad first term, an unfinished mural by the end of summer meant leaving it undone for ... an entire term. I would've rather died than let that happen. Really. Luckily, I had help, not only from Laura but also from our other resident super awesome painter, Jess (she painted a bad ass dragon in Fingal's her frosh year too)!
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| Jess's side of the mural. So freaking awesome. It's cool because you can also see how differently each of us paint. |
Without her help, there's no way I could've finished before leaving for Scotland. I owe her so much. *___*
Anyway, here's the full finished mural, in all its panoramic glory! It looks much better in person though, so you should really swing by and check it out~.
Also,
Fun Fact: There are over 20 easter eggs hidden throughout the mural. Some are obvious and some are a little harder to find. There's one that's absolutely impossible to find, so I challenge you to look for it. You can ask me if you think you've found it, but I really don't think you will. :P Sorry I can't give a more exact number on the easter eggs. To be honest every time I've tried to count them, I lose track. Ahaha... welp.
Fun Fact #2: There are 3 narwhals total, not including the fingerpainted one. Bahahaha. >:D
Anyway, for any art lovers / painters / artists out there, if you want to leave your mark while you're at Tech, there's still plenty of wall space around the house! And please come talk to me during rotation!! It's always really fun getting to meet techers who are enthusiastic about art too (:
<3,
Stephany
