Marine life artist visits aquarium

With brushes and plastic cups of paint in hand, more than a dozen third-graders painted blue and green fish, purple turtles and black crabs on a background of the Chesapeake Bay.

The students from Excellence Christian School in Upper Marlboro lent their talents to an 8-by-20-foot mural in front of the National Aquarium in Baltimore City?s Inner Harbor as part of marine artist Wyland?s tour to teach water preservation.