VENTURA : Saticoy School to Get 3 Colorful Murals

Students at Saticoy School in Ventura will have a hand in creating three colorful murals at their campus.

Two of the murals were designed with a theme of “The Sky Above, The Earth Below,” Saticoy Principal Nancy Bradford said. About 400 students in kindergarten through third grade submitted drawings on that theme, she said.

Professional artist M. B. Hanrahan used elements from those drawings to come up with the final design for the murals, one measuring 12 1/2 by 30 feet and the second 8 by 30 feet.

Hanrahan is the same artist painting the “Tortilla Flats” mural at the Ventura Fairgrounds, Bradford said.

The murals scheduled for Saticoy School are collages of natural and man-made elements, including a rainbow, snow-capped mountains, sea life, flowers and a schoolyard.

“She is so good,” Bradford said. “They look wonderful.”

Hanrahan’s murals will be painted on the sides of two classrooms that face the parking lot, the principal said. A third mural drawn by students in the fifth grade will be painted on the wall of a kindergarten classroom.

That mural, which depicts two teddy bears holding balloons and a toy train set, will be done entirely by the fifth-graders, Bradford said.

“They are graduating this year and they wanted to document their time here,” she said.

All three murals will be covered with a clear coating to protect against graffiti, Bradford said.