Art seniors get selected to paint murals
By Kiahni Christmas
El Dorado’s 5 th Annual Senior Mural selection is here. Artist spends weeks preparing for
the murals, hoping they will be remembered by the work they leave behind.
“The students who want to paint a mural have to be a senior and they go through a
whole application process,” said art teacher Candice Printz.
Students have to write an essay explaining why they chose that design. For example, is it
a tribute to a famous artist, is it their own piece and what is the significance behind the
piece. Lastly they have to write a separate essay explaining why they should be chosen
to do the mural. This essay is not about the artwork but about the student themselves
and why they want to do the mural.
“We want to make sure that they have enough art experience to do this,” Printz said.
“That they are able to pull it off because doing art on a tiny piece of paper is very
different compared to a whole wall.”
Talking to some artists, art is their escape from the real world and where they are able
to just express themselves and show off the talent that they were born with. For
Brittany Canales getting picked and doing the senior mural is you leaving your mark and
stating that you were here.
“I was kind of nervous,” Canales said. “I knew that Mrs. (Cynthia) Retana was not going
to approve that many and for me to be selected I am very excited to do it. Ever since I
was a sophomore I wanted to be able to do one and now that I am a senior, I want to
leave my mark so that people can look at it and be like, ‘Oh what a cool piece.’”
The murals will be scattered all throughout D-hall, ranging from celebrity idols to
scenery settings.
“I want to do a scenery piece,” Canales said, “I feel like people always tend to draw
humans so I wanted to do something different. I want it to look like you go into the
piece. I want to do a stairway that transcended form nature to space, to state that we
are limitless and we can achieve whatever we want.”