August 28, 2013
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| This is our verandah wall prior to the help it desperately needed. |
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| First we drew and framed the section that was going to be the mural itself. |
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| After we drew our graphics, we filled in the empty space around it. |
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| Next comes the colour (yeah, I spell like a Brit now) |
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| We were lucky to find a graphic on the computer that centralized Africa on our globe graphic. |
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| Finished with the color! |
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| Now fast forward six weeks and we decided it was time to wrap it up. |
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| Turns out very few Sierra Leoneons can actually read cursive... but we thought it added to the artistic value. |
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| Check out the African ladder I'm using. Nothing like standing on a stool on a table to reach those extra high points. |
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| No peace mural is complete without a quote from Barack Obama! |
The quotes from top to bottom read:
- "to promote world peace and friendship" -Peace Corps Act of 1961
- "Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us." -Sargent Shriver, 1st Peace Corps Director
- The 3 Goals of Peace Corps Sierra Leone [hopefully you can read those because I'm too lazy to type them]
- "Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice." -Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
- "blessing and peace be ever thine own / land that we love, our Sierra Leone" -Sierra Leone National Anthem
This is sooo awesome! I liked it before all the lettering, but now you have pulled it all together. Good JOB! I did not realize how much it added until I see pictures of your neighbor's veranda that is so blank.
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