After a year of false starts, the mural project at the Discovery Bay Marine Lab started up again – and this time with paint! Starting with a long weekend in late August, Taylor and I dabbed away at one of the outside walls of the Invasive Species lab to the melodious tunes of dancehall. Given the focus of the lab we were working on, we painted a scene that included invasive lionfish, coral and green mussels, as well as ballast water (responsible for bringing any number of unwelcome creatures to Jamaica each year). A few weekends later when we had finished the outside mural, and next went to work on a much smaller mural inside the building. Here are a few pictures from this adventure:

Sketching out the design in red.

Color added - halfway there.

Finished!

Inside mural. Mangroves, sea stars, urchins, lionfish.

View from the marine lab. Not a bad place to work, eh?