The Final Mural the other 50 feet!

This is the other end of the wall mural all completed.


In this undersea part of the mural fish dance to the tunes coming out of the coral.

The Final Mural

These are pictures of the finished mural.
It is about 100' long so it is hard to get it in one picture.
I am putting a series of pictures of the sections.

The mural wall starts out with a garden of huge flowers and the school banner. The focus of the school teaching is reflected in all of the imagery that went into the mural. We included a quote, "Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future" by John F. Kennedy. One of my favorite things I incorporated in the mural design was that every student who worked on the mural "signed" it with their hand print in the grass. While I was helping them put their hand print on the wall I asked them to remember what was around their hand print so that when they grew up they could find their hand print. I hope it is on the wall a long time!





One of the funny things that happened with the garden part of the mural is that even though the students wanted broccoli in their garden. No one wanted to paint it!

Wall Mural painting in progress

Whew!!! The major school mural project took 6 months total to complete. Along the way I taught the students Gr 2-5) how to enlarge drawings using the grid method and ratio. They delighted in being able to be a part of the planning, brainstorming and painting. It was a great experience for the students, teachers and myself. This community project included over 200 people pitching in to paint and be a part of creating this work of art for the school. In the end it took a couple of months of detail painting on my own to make the final artwork sparkle. I hope you enjoy the murap progress pictures.

Wall Mural in Progress

I am currently working on a mural project with the after school program at the JFK Magnet School. Working with 135 kids from Grade 2- Grade 5. The mural is about 100' long.