PAINTING THE WALLS

In our class, we had to paint something on the college walls that represented the body. Our group represented the elements of the earth - air, water, fire and earth - through a woman. The woman is shown growing and branching out; yet holding all the elements together and balancing them.

While working on this with the team I was in, I learnt quite a bit - in both designing as well as artistic aspects. In our heads, so many ideas were running through - so many words came to our minds when we thought of the word "body". So finding a common ground to represent all our ideas was rather tough, but possible. 

What we pictured in our heads and what we ended up with were pretty different. As we were painting the wall, more ideas and different methods of representing the ideas came to our heads, and we spontaneously added them (with the rest of the groups' consent, of course). 

Working with different kinds of paint, finding the correct proportion of each color and generally working with different color schemes and combinations was also something I learnt from this activity. Overall, I felt it was a good combination of thinking, executing and simultaneously having fun.