The city of McHenry’s first mural is going up at 1216 Green St., and residents are invited to come out from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday to add their own color to the project.

Dawn Bremer, a McHenry Planning and Zoning commissioner and the McHenry High School District 156 board president as well as a real estate agent, commissioned Cicero artist Mauricio Ramirez to paint the mural. It is going up in a private alleyway that pedestrians walk through in their way to Miller Point Park and the McHenry Riverwalk.

“People will wait in line to spray paint a piece of it and be a part of the mural,” Bremer said.

The mural will include a butterfly with its wings extended, a Fox, and sunflowers, she said. McHenry area businesses, which helped underwrite the cost, will also have their names hidden in the design, she said.