Student Artists to be Recognized for work on Mural

All of the students who worked on the Train Depot mural will be awarded free tickets to the carnival. $50 certificates will be awarded to Brittany Bishop and Katie King for submitting the designs that the mural was based on and for their exceptional help with painting the mural.

The tickets and certificates will be presented to the student artists during the Opening Ceremonies at 7 p.m. inside the Shepherd Village Park.

Mural Update

The Mural is completed. The students will be recognized during the Opening Ceremonies for the Sesquicentennial at 7 p.m. on Thursday, August 16 in the Village Park.

Getting Started

Local student artists are just getting started on the train mural. Monday and Tuesday we planned out our ideas and cut templates to trace on to the train. Wednesday we plan to get most of the drawing done and start painting. If any other community artist would like to help paint we need you. Just contact Mrs. Bleecker at 330-0227 (cell)or home 7723-4051 and bring a paintbrush (smile). We need at least a crew of ten to meet our goal of three weeks. We need artists who are not concerned about heights as well. Please help. Right now we have only five in the past two days because most of our students have summer jobs or classes.

"Before" Shot of freight car

Before the undercoating had been applied, this freight car was rusty and dingy looking.

Mural Design, Prt. 2

Here is another part of the design.

Mural Designs, Prt

Here are some of the sketches the students will be referring to as they create the mural on the side of the train car:

Work to begin on Monday

The art students who are involved with the Train Depot Mural project will meet on Monday to get organized and then if the weather is good they will begin gridding and transfering images that day. The students will begin drawing their art onto the car by either Tuesday or Wednesday.

The mural will be a collage of things from the town's history. The students started a few months ago by creating sketches which they will now use as guides while they are painting the train car. Like a living document, the final mural could look different from what they had captured on paper.