The
extremely colorful mural was painted -- under adult supervision, I must
add -- in the
summer of 2000. The part shown above measures maybe six square feet, so
it's not exactly shy, and the sign below is no shyer.
Here's how this part of the mural developed:
- The border of the sign was painted in black.
- Then "RUBY HOME for GIRLS" was lettered in red.
- Then the
field of the sign was filled in with yellow. (Now, I myself would have done the background before the lettering, but I'm no artist.)
- Only then did someone notice that it was supposed to
say, "Ruby's," not just "Ruby."
- So the
"apostrophe s" got added, but, as you can see, it ended up
entirely outside the sign.
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