These initial steps are extremely important as well as challenging. The best way to insure a successful mural lies in planning and thinking about what you want to communicate and how you can use the design elements of color, line, shape, texture and space to in order to convey your idea. Since we can feel a connection to many different persons, objects or ideas, this topic is wide open. Bright colors are loud and tend to advance, while dull, less intense colors are quiet and recede.
Warm colors advance while cool colors recede.
It's not an accident that we see things in a specific way when we look at a work of art. The artist has planned for us to see it that way. The artist's ideas take shape through the use of these design elements and principles.