Over a week or so ago I took a trip back to my ol' home town in the south (Mount Barker, WA) to visit my parents and unwind a bit. I used this opportunity to visit a sort of mural thing near town that incorporated some paintings from various individuals in the community (students mainly) onto a painted steam train (these individual paintings represented windows on the carriages).
I was responsible for one of those paintings. I think it must have been back in 2006 as a project for my year 12 art class. It needed to represent something to do with the town in some respect, if I recall. I decided that since the painting was going to end up on a train mural later on, I'd try and include a train theme in the design as well. What I ended up with was of a girl riding inside a train carriage that was passing through the country side with the Mount Barker tower in the background with a sunset glowing over the horizon. I remember it was an interesting and fairly fun experience doing this. For one, I had to paint onto a sheet of metal which I had never done before, but really it was a fairly straight forward process.
The funny thing is, this was the first time that I actually had decided to go up and closely inspect the mural in person, some six years after it was put up on display. So if you ever find yourself driving through Mount Barker one of these days and you keep your eyes peeled for a train mural just off the Albany Hwy, you might be able to notice my little contibution towards the end of the first train carriage.
The painting which I contributed to the mural.
Here's a shot of the first carriage (1 of 3 carriages) with the steam train in the distance.
A better shot showing off some of the other paintings. What I also came to notice was just how well the other students did with their contributions. Good job!
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