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My children both attended a parent participation preschool. The director was looking for someone to help make a "tree" in the circle time area. During the interview with the director, upon joining the school, I offered my artistic skills to paint a cartoon-style mural with the disclaimer that I've never done a mural project. In my usual style, the project turned out to be a large one. It took a long time, since I only chipped away at the project a teeny bit at a time (busy mom). However, I'm proud of the results. We went with a farm theme, including "parent participation" farm animals.
I also created a second, smaller mural under the window near the large mural, plus designed a third one that I never ended up painting...ran out of time. (However, I cleaned up the digital version of this unpainted mural. See my sheep and lamb cartoon artwork that I derived from my unused mural design.). I drew the images for the murals in Photoshop, and then my husband borrowed a data projector from work to project the image onto the walls. I carefully traced my design, maintaining its original details, then painted it.
Since I obviously didn't have enough to do taking care of a toddler, I also made a new sign for the exterior of the preschool building.
I plan to add more closeup photos below in the future. Click on any of the images for a larger version.
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The completed large mural, over two walls.
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The completed left wall of the large mural.
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The completed right wall of the large mural.
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Close-up of the right wall of the large mural.
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Close-up of the right wall of the large mural.
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Corner of the two walls of the large mural.
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Distant crops, scarecrow, and crows.
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Ponies, donkeys, and goats playing instruments in a musical circle (while their parents watch).
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Piglet swinging on a tire.
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Chicks sliding down a rock with tumbling eggs.
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Bunny cutting carrot shapes out of play dough. See my Easter Bunny artwork that I derived from this mural image.
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A smaller mural that creates a framed area under the classroom window. A young cow paints cow spots while the parent cow offers encouragement!
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Detail from the cow spot mural. I cleaned up the digital version of this image and made an image that you can buy! See my cow and calf cartoon artwork that I derived from this mural image.
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