The mural needed to be educational and fun, so I threw up the alphabet and some basic shapes in primary colors but then got a little bit more fancy.

Floating flowers and leaves can help build counting skills; the petals correspond to the numbers dancing around. I also put a yellow brick road in the far left to rep the school but also to show the children a little bit about how perspective works. And on the far right I executed a little island oasis to peek out of the shadows. Overall, I wanted the piece to be pedagogical in a very direct way but also in an indirect way through explorations of various artistic devices such as perspective, color theory, symbolism, line, overlapping planes and representational art.

I kept it simple so the children can mimic the work and experiment artistically on their own.