Paint It Black! (Or Don't. Color Can Be Nice Some Times, Too.)

Howdy, Charlotte!

While I am a Community Emergency Preparedness Corps member here at Hands On Charlotte, HOC really does a lot of things outside of this realm, including coordinating corporate volunteer events. One of these events we actually held this morning with Belk at Steele Creek Elementary School, and while we had a variety of projects, including some landscaping and construction projects, our new CEPC member, Molly, and I had the immense pleasure of leading a mural painting project. For these "portable murals" as we call them, we actually set up a projector and use permanent marker to trace an outline on our canvas, and then we are able to go in and paint as we wish. With today's mural, we were quite excited to have some fellow creative spirits, and I am quite proud of how our artwork turned out! For your enjoyment, here are some pictures from today's project, and of course, some Rolling Stones to keep your day nice and spicy.

Getting the outline traced on our canvas!

Molly, hard at work!

Molly contributed a psychedelic worm to the painting!

Belk volunteers starting things off!

The "Mob Squad," our second round of Belk volunteers!

Molly and me with the finished mural!

This week's mural (left) with the mural I helped Belk volunteers from the corporate office paint last week on MLK Day!

Stay safe, y'all, and don't forget to take a break from the stress of life and let your creativity flow every once in a while!