Mural — Devon Layne

Freshman Tony Ames thinks going to an art school will mean all he has to do is paint. It only takes a few days to discover how wrong he is and how incompetent he feels. The work is boring and tedious. Everyone else seems so together. But Tony is miserable. And depressed. And lonely. He should never have moved 1,500 miles from his Nebraska home. The high spot of his week is playing racquetball with champion and former fashion model Lissa. But the endorphins only lift his spirits for a couple hours a week, and Lissa is way out of his league. He decides not to return for second semester but when Melody, his secret crush in Figure Drawing, suggests that he model for the class when the day's subject fails to show up, things slowly begin to change for Tony. When Lissa decides to help get Tony and Melody together, and the college decides he's perfect for a new program they are launching, Tony's life threatens to spiral out of control. If only he could capture what he felt on canvas. Or on a forty-foot mural!