Day Three: Monday: The drawing at Scotland Elementary

This mural was donated to Scotland Elementary by _________.  Traditionally when we go to a school we are there for the purposes of leading collaborative drawing experiences with small hordes of young artists.  It was really nice to go to a school for the purposes of just making a drawing for all to enjoy.  The school is built like a square donut who's interior walls are filled with the creamy goodness of a dedicated art teacher and construction paper-based assignments.  This left us with one long, notably blank hallway wall that leads to the cafeteria.  Though we only have a less than two hour window to make a drawing, we decided to try and tackle this significantly long wall.  Assuming that we draw at approximately the same rate every time, and cover the same amount of wall in each two hour time period, the result of drawing on a larger surface is simply to thin out our efforts across a broader bit of space.  Essentially it turns into a quantity over quality equation.  The more quantity of wall, the less dense the drawing would be.  

In this case we wanted to make a drawing that would be really fun to walk alongside.  It would have to be some sort of path, or progressive narrative that ran along this horizontal surface.  The mascot for Scotland Elementary is, you guessed it, a Scottie terrier.  When we put the combination of Scottie terrier in the same sentence as a long and possibly winding path of some sort... the answer became instantly clear.  Remember, we are surrounded by the karmic energy of silly-inducing elementary school children... but regardless the answer was clear.  We set about drawing a roller coaster type track that would take the rocket-fueled terrier through the most basic of challenges: hammerhead shark pools, looped-de-loops, plate glass windows and of course, a ring of fire.  Immediately after we started drawing we were visited by one, then two, then three classrooms who sat opposite from us in the tiny hallway and proceeded to bombard us with questions.  The teachers were kind enough to play mediators to the forest of waving raised hands, and one-by-one we did our best to answer all the questions we could.  As artists that work on the street we have become quite accustomed to drawing while we are talking and that niche skill got put into full effect during this Q and A.  The questions were remarkably insightful, and the majority of them focused on our career as artists and the history behind the types of work we make.  I think it is safe to say that we were talking the entire time we were making this drawing.

At one point we employed the help of a small collection of students to help rip tape into tiny pieces to create the ring of fire.  Armed with two-inch thick pieces of tape, they went about fashioning a convincing ring of fire with very little additional input from us.  We capped the roller coaster track off with a collection of tiny flags and then went about drawing some onlookers.  The woman holding the camera is a charismatic teacher who's pirate-worthy boots were captured in the portrait of her as a camerawoman documenting this Scotties fearless feats.