How to Paint Murals Quickly
- 1). Use a wall mural-stencil kit to create a mural fast. Kits in varying designs are available online from many retailers (see Resources). Basecoat the walls with a light color. Position the stencils on the wall, or use the positioning map that comes with the kit. Paint the stencils by working from the back of the mural to the front. Determine a highlight side, and add shading opposite this to the elements in your mural to create dimension.
- 2). Employ a projector to quickly paint a mural. Create a transparency of the image you'd like to turn into a mural by creating a black-and-white copy of the image (simple images with bold lines work best). Take the image to a copy center to turn into a transparency. Usually, you can also rent a projector from the copy center or an office-supply store. Set up the projector a few feet away from the wall where you want to create a mural. Put the transparency on the projector, and turn on the projector and focus it as necessary. Trace the lines on the wall with a light-colored pencil, and then paint the mural as desired with paint.
- 3). Create a cute mural scene in a day with a paint-by-numbers mural kit. Generally, you will tape the mural, which is on transfer paper, to the wall in the desired spot. Trace the image with a pencil to transfer it to the wall. Paint the transferred image using paints that were included with the kit, or buy your own colors to suit your room's design scheme.
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