EDMONDS — Art students from Meadowdale High School earlier this month helped Edmonds artist Sue Coccia paint a mural downtown.
“Heron” depicts animals that call the Edmonds marsh home and is on a wall behind the HouseWares store at 318 Main St.
The Edmonds Mural Society each year puts out an invitation to local high school teachers to recommend student volunteers for mural work.
This was Sami Sully’s second year participating. Sully, 17, who will be a senior at Meadowdale High School this fall, said the volunteer work is a great experience.
“Not only is it helping the community, but it also helps me expand as an artist,” she said. “Last year, for example, I learned a lot of techniques that would have taken me a lot longer if I had done it on my own.”
Working with Coccia’s style this year also helped form Sully’s own style, which is more “cartoony animals.”
Like other student volunteers, Sully hopes to continue her interest in art. “It’s basically what I want to do with my life,” she said.
“Heron” is the first of five new murals planned for downtown this summer by the Edmonds Mural Society.
Painting of the second mural, by Andy Eccleshall, is expected to start this month at The Papery, 410 Main St.
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