The Art of Pearl Maxner

Power's Oregon Library Mural Project

This is the Powers, Oregon Library building before Pearl Maxner and the town's kids got a hold of it..
library before

It all started ~ in May of 2010 ~ before school was out, Jr. High Art students held a wall cleaning party.

WallCleaningCrew
Establishing Parameters
Jay Parameters
In the following week, Pearl and husband Jay completed the needed patching, priming and outlining of the green painting areas...
GreenGoesOnLeft
Green Background
GreenGoesOnRight
A week later the aspiring artists came back and painted the background green color that would house the bulk of the mural…
ChoseYourAnimal

The end of June, Pearl Maxner held a two week summer school mural class for students aged 9-18. The class included choosing an animal to draw, computer research of your animal and then learning how to draw them...

The next step was learning how to grid the wall and transfer your drawing to it...
AnimalResearch
Gridding1
Gridding
Gridding2

Let the painting begin...

Jacob1
Jacob2

Jacob's Coyote

BryannaParadise1

Bryanna's Lynx

Christopher
Clancy Standley2

Clancy's Salmon

Christopher's Lizard

BryannaParadise2
Heidi&Al1
Heidi&Al2
Heidi&Al3
Father & Daughter muralist team ~ Heidi and Al Ray ~ Black Bears Salmon Fishing
Joanna McNeil1

Joanne's

Praying

Mantis

Joanna McNeil2
Violet Hills Skunk1

Violet's Skunk

Riley Baldwin

Riley's Porcupine

Riley Baldwin2
Violet Hills2
Hunter1
Hunter2

Hunter's Wolf

Jessica1

Jessica's Duck

Madison1
Madison2

Madison's Otter

Jessica2
Liz1

Liz's Lamprey

Liz Lamprey1
Kathrynn1
Hunter Byrd1
Hunter Byrd2

Hunter's Spider

Kathrine's Chipmunk

Kathrynn2
AnnMarie1

Ann Marie's Deer

Mia1

Mia's

Squirrel

Mia2
Annmarie2
Tayler Gonzales1

Taylor's

Fox

Tayler Gonzales2
Elicia1
Elicia2
HannaE1

Elicia's Possum

Hanna's Frog

Adrianna&RobbieClugey1
Adrianna&Robbie2
HannaE2

Adrianna Clugey & Robbie Lintz ~ Otter

Hannah Shorb1
Brenon1

Brenon's Buck

Hannah S.

Brenon2
PearlPaintsInbetweens

While the kids were working on their individual paintings, Pearl moved around the mural adding artistic details featuring local flora and fauna...

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In-Betweens gallery

Now that the young artists have completed their work, it is time for Pearl, with a little help from her assistant, to create the Myrtle Tree entrance.

Starting Tree
LibrarySign

Now for the foliage…

Tree Limbs
Trunk & Sign
1st Leaves
2nd Leaves
3rd Leaves

~ The Completed Project ~

PowersLibrary
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