This is our most ambitious mural to date, which sits in Haycock's cafeteria. For this project, Principal Beaty gave us more freedom with the design; her only requests were for the mural to embody Haycock's tight-knit community and be painted in an elegant style. Initially, we presented two designs: one very similar to the final design but without text, and one featuring a family of cougars rather than students.

The painting of this mural took us the longest time. Similar to the Spring Hill mural, we had to deal with the cinder block texture, which made paint application difficult and required us to apply multiple coats. However, this design was far more complex than the Spring Hill design, which is what made it so difficult.

We are incredibly grateful to Principal Beaty for allowing us to work on the mural during the school year. We were given a shoutout by Haycock ES in the September Dranesville Newsletter: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/VAEDUFCPS/bulletins/3f22fdf!