Meadow Mural
Photo by Jim Gipe Pivot Media. © The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
In celebration of the opening of Bobbie’s Meadow this summer, we invited guests to bring the Meadow into the Great Hall of the Museum by creating a mural on the windows.
Photo by Jim Gipe Pivot Media. © The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
We used Stabilo watercolor pencils to draw directly on the windows and create a collaborative meadow-scape for the Museum. These pencils work well on window surfaces, they create a bold colorful line and wipe off easily with soapy water.
Photo by Jim Gipe Pivot Media. © The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
Helping us out on the day were three local artists, Micha Archer, Meghan Burch and B.Z. Reily, who brought their own materials and outdoors-inspired artwork to share.
Photo by Jim Gipe Pivot Media. © The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
With the simple invitation of “what can you add to our meadow?” we saw dinosaurs stomping, insects crawling, birds flying and plants growing.
Photo by Jim Gipe Pivot Media. © The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
By placing mats on the floor guests could work at whatever height they were most comfortable with, standing or sitting.
Photo by Jim Gipe Pivot Media. © The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
When the sun shone through the windows, the drawn lines cast shadows on the floor, creating another dimension to this collaborative mural.
Photo by Jim Gipe Pivot Media. © The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
We left the window meadow up for a few days to enjoy, and then then watercolor pencils wiped off of the window easily with soap and water. Lately the windows have provided plenty of inspiration for large-scale artwork, we look forward to continuing to use these surfaces to explore materials.
