You have always wanted to paint a mural… or you have painted a mural and it just seems flat. What is the answer? Are you looking for painting instructions for murals dimensional?
While it is impossible to teach mural painting on just this page… you can pick up a few tricks to get started.
Murals come in two different styles. One style is to paint on objects on a wall… and outline each one of them in cartoon style. This type of mural technique is the easiest to achieve and is usually reserved for baby murals and murals for kitchens.
This site gives you all the tools your need to create your own professional murals.
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The other style of mural is a dimensional or realistic mural. A mural that looks so real… you are fooled for an instant or two into thinking that the illusion is actually real.
This type of mural requires you to learn about shading, shadows and highlights. It’s not an easy lesson to learn. Plus… you will need to learn the art of perspective. This was the hardest of all the lessons for me to learn. Trust me… my painting partner says ” You still don’t know everything about perspective”.
Perspective is the art of making something appear close or far away. Look at this painting and see how some of the objects appear to be up close and some appear to be very far away. You know this is a painting on a flat canvas and yet the objects appear dimensional.
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Watch these videos to see how easy it is to add highlights and shadows to create dimensional murals.
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i can’t get in to ask a question..elsewhere,
hope you get this…Debra..i want to get an overhead projector, murals, is the size you have in your description of one the size of the projection window itself…cause all i’m seeing is 10″ x 10″? any ideas where to get one of decent quality but a good price?
Thanks for the ideas. I’ve been looking for some whimsical ideas for some projects, both walls and furniture.
Rebecca,
I often use an overhead projector for different projects and they are not always murals.
I find a photo sometimes and use my photo program on my computer to scan it and use the special effects to turn it into a coloring book photo. It actually takes out the color and leaves just the lines. Sometimes it doesn’t get all that is in the photo but that is ok because I can usually redraw in the portions I need. Then I take it to the copy shop and have them make it into an overhead sheet for me. Sometimes I get my ideas from advertisements or magazines.
Right now I am working on a mural for our church’s VBS and it is going to be a window with Mt. Uluru in the background. I hope that I can get the perspective correct as well as the shadows! Best of luck to you-check out this book-Creative Kid murals you can paint by Suzanne Whitaker and Projection Stenciling by Linda Buckingham and Leslie Bird. One is very detailed in everything from paint used, techniques to paint brushes and she shows examples. The other is about making stencils but they look real.
Thanks Paula for the info! I can’t wait to see the church mural you are doing! ~DEBRA