Are your schools cluttered with murals from bygone eras? Do the paintings on the walls look dated? did you, yourself create said paintings and they looked old before you finished them? Then paint a new mural!
Currently, I am looking to painting 5 indoor murals - 5 sheets of 4x8 drywall - and one outdoor mural for the new pre-school pen. Works will reflect the nature of the school and it's history, but it will also make bold steps towards its future. By simply pasting the past or present, it'll get dated fast and who wants to see that for the next ten years?
But what to paint? Do I come up with original works? Do I stencil a paint-by-numbers drawing? Perplexing questions, indeed. Then there is the style of painting... Impressionistic? Expressionistic? Noire or realism? Even more perplexing.
Let's not even talk budget. The cost should be about $100 a mural, give or take. Not including time and supervision schedules that would have to be adjusted. I dislike fund-raising but can't see it coming about any other way.
Regardless of what gets painted, ultimately, it can be redone in 10 years - one full generation later.
