Blue Mosque Mural

Deuel High School students have been working hard on an Art project for English teacher, Samantha Walder. Periods 6th, 7th, and 8th have been working on a mural of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. Te Blue Mosque is one of the largest mosques in the world today. "This picture was taken in the evening from the Asian side of Istanbul," said Mrs. Samantha Walder.

"This project has been going on for 3 weeks, so thats about 36 man hours. I decided to do this project because it's a collaborate project, and artists need to work together because we don't live in the world in isolation. Everybody had to do a piece of the sky, and a piece of the building, so they had to have at least 2 pieces, but some did more. Everyone wanted to do the sky, but I said they had to do one of both," says Barb Miller, the high school Art instructor.

Mrs. Walder wanted this project done for her classroom to hang up on her wall. She wants to expose more people to some of the beauty that Turkey has to offer. "My favorite part about this project was doing what you see in your square, and then looking at everyone's around you and seeing that they are so different, then you laugh at it and say oops I did mine wrong," said Tabitha Rossow, a sophomore.

This project has been a challenge for the high school students. "The hardest part was getting all the details in there, the shadows, and making things look 3-D," said Michelle Pederson, sophomore. The mural had to be done by the end of the semester and hung up in Walder's room.