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The mural painting workshop offers teaching techniques that can be applied so mixed.
As is the case of this mural painted by Cristian Del Vitto in the city that has encrusted Berisso ceramics, paint and synthetic enamel reliefs in cement as seen in the character's hands holding the box.
All this is learned separately and the final intention is that students generate a composition with these techniques, often economic backwardness treated materials as in the case of broken pottery that is collected by the students themselves, selected for color and shades.
In early 2008 I was summoned by the authorities and teachers of the School of Art in Villa Clara Emiliano Gomez Mary to deliver two seminars of Murals.
They were organized in a theoretical and practical application in Sgraffito technique.
The students were very interested in learning this technique because it is fairly new to the country and not many muralists to work on a regular basis at least.
By putting course aware that I teach and my work as a muralist contacted me.
The lecture began in June amid a social crisis in which the field cut routes and the city of Villa Maria had its central streets with spilled milk as a way of protesting dairy farmers, in addition to the fuel shortage was the very active city a disturbing desolation.
From Buenos Aires I thought was not going to get to Cordoba, but I was lucky.
At Villa Maria made me so welcome and I met people committed to the core with public art. Those people who are obliged to take care and put it together with many others, as in other places that I walked passed. In order to add artists.
By knowing the school Emiliano Gomez Clara was surprised by the new and modern, the envy of any school, spacious classrooms and all the necessary technology, a luxury of public education.
The teachers were not uploaded to the pedestal of academia and knowledge if that proved to be part of a real machine of art side by side with students endured long hours of work on the wall gathering dust to see completed sgraffito .
Returning to the course.
In the theoretical part dictated the contents that are posted on this blog.
They took my seminar about 50 people including students and teachers had all been filmed and documented because it was forming the first cross-hatching of Villa Maria.
They project images, discussing aspects of mural painting, the differences with the giant poster wall, abstract wall and arranged the work in 5 or 6 groups.
The slogan was a project for a mural that would be at the front of the school to view. Also had to work with a reduced palette of 5 colors, the characteristics of this technique.
The theme of the mural should be the identity of the school. And they began to work.
The students, discussed countless sketches were drawn ideas, some were discarded, others merged, creating another. Also curiously matches were found between groups, and these were the backbone of the completion of the sketch group.
Days passed, classes and the idea that remained was to represent the direct way the student from school until reaching the full freedom of expression only reaches up the steps of knowledge.
The sketch was made with figures intertwined spiral staircase up merged into the wings of a cocoon with female body that was released and flew in a plastic composition excellent game.
Having concluded the first phase of the seminar I went to my city. Teachers took over in the middle of the organization in regard to getting the materials for the cross-hatching, raising funds, drawing resources from all sides.
The community wanted to have his sgraffito and outside.
I for my part had a great desire to promote cross-hatching and leave at least one group that was concerning the mural in place so that undoubtedly expand and grow.
Finally in August I went to Villa Maria to perform and manage the sgraffito mural, I worked with a team of construction workers, students and teachers.
All in a state of anxiety, taking notes on the preparation of the wall, the proportions of materials, pigments and masonry techniques.
The first day I ordered to sand the wall where it would work.
He encased the perimeter of the wall and started working with the builders to control the proportions since they usually alter the amount of cement to finish soon and go.
Type 7 began in the morning and started to pull the layers of colors, as all this took until 1 am the other day.
For this, teachers and students took note of all details as they had thought about doing a little cross-hatching in the city to start their own.
Late at night I was finishing off with a wick of the last layer so that the drawing can be passed without imperfections at dawn.
And finally the big day arrived, everything was very well organized, divided groups and working hours, time spent accompanied with moisture and the 28 square meters of mural drawing.
I started looking sgraffito with students and teachers standing at first timidly encouraged to find out their spatulas and knives into the soft mixture to remove parts left over.
The students had worked on a color sketch for what he had to follow the sketch plan with my advice on image processing and texture graffito.
From now on everything was a whirlwind of art work held in a state of art in an atmosphere of pleasure and camaraderie, there were still discussions about the composition but all in pursuit of improving the work and not by an intension of impose criteria.
The mural of 28 square meters was completed in two days, all carved by hand with knives, spatulas, wire and with a degree of complexity of multiple overlapping images. We ate on the scaffolding of two bodies, drinking mate, listened to music.
I for one enjoyed the view as concretized the first sgraffito mural of Villa Maria and how the students already had plans to fly in future graffito.
"Today the school has its own mural which identifies the first of the city. A mural does not peel like other murals, but must endure endures as historical documents, since among other things, the mural is. A document , historical, political, educational, social, humanist and monumental.
A work for all people and all generations. "
Adding to the joy of having completed my work at Villa Maria at 2 months they sent me an email telling me they had already done the sgraffito.
I've been pleased to have met good people like Gaby, Coqui, Milton, and many others who are present in my memories.
