| "Welcome" mural at El Granada School, El Granada, California. This mural was a gift to the school from the fourth and fifth graders of Mrs. Moriary's class in 1996. What I did as art director was to help the children synthesize their many wonderful ideas into one design and get it on the wall. I tryed not to change their drawings but did insist on them varying their colors. (For some reason, kids have a compulsion to use flat colors straight from the jar, regardless of what result they are after.) The writing in the book is Jack Prelutsky's "I Met a Dragon Face to Face." Some areas were painted by adults because the kids weren't allowed to use ladders. There were also a couple of adults who went in and "fixed" things they didn't like, but I cut them off as soon as I caught them. |
