SCAF: Special Children's Art Foundation

Our current mural was created for the Kentwood Elementary School in Los Angeles, California. This project will consist of two murals that will adorn the interior side walls of the schools auditorium. Both murals measure 6 feet by 28 feet and depict images of the students participating in musical and theater arts. The project will also involve local students attending Orville Wright Junior High and Westchester High School campuses.

The Kentwood mural will differ from previous murals that we have completed in that the mural will be mounted onto wood panels that are 4' by 6' and 1inch to 3 inches thick. They will undulate in height on the wall to create a mural that has a sculpture feel.


		The first sketch that was designed was the musical arts panels. The schools administration wanted the images to reflect the music programs that they teach in the auditorium. We started out with elementary students and added images of Junior High and high school students.


		The second sketch that was designed was the theater arts panels. We pushed this idea to encapsulate film, television and theater to make it more whimsical.

		Upon the administration's approval, artist Bob Hernandez took his sketches back to the drafting table to create the color compositions that will become our color style guides. These style guides become our paint by number layouts. During this process, the sketch images are sent to our printer who begins printing the mural onto the custom premanufactured wood panels.

The painting sessions at Kentwood began on February 4, 2009 and will continue through the 19th. Students from Orville Wright Middle School visited the Kentwood campus assisting the students at Kentwood. The students started on the musical themed mural and completed them on February 17. This week students from Westchester High School will visit the Kentwood campus to continue working on the theater arts mural.

Students from Westchester High School continued painting on the theater arts mural panels. At this time the musical arts mural is 100% complete, while the theatrical arts mural is approximately 85% complete. We will now begin touching up the final panels and prepare for installation.

Please visit the website of the Daily Breeze, to read the article covering the painting sessions at Kentwood Elementary School.

For more information call us at 818-642-6374
or email us at:
specialchildrensart@yahoo.com