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How to Paint/Construct a Wall Mural
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Tree Background
Adding forward elements
Adding detail
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Mountain Background
Hills as forward elements
Adding detail
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Painting murals is one of my most favorite
things on earth to do. They aren't as difficult as they might seem. This is
a mural I hand painted on our master bedroom wall. Even if you can't paint a
lick, there are so many stencils available to help you achieve a gorgeous
mural on your own walls. I'm going to show you two different murals at the same time. The one on the left is my hand painted mural. The one on the right is a mural using stencils. Step 1- Always begin with what is in the background as you will be adding larger elements on top of it. Left mural: Evergreen trees and sky. Right mural: Sky and mountain stencil. Step 2- Add more forward elements. On my hand painted mural, I added a willow tree. On the stenciled mural, I simply used a damp rag dipped in green paint to wipe an area in front of the mountains that looked like a right sloping hill. I next did the same thing in a lighter green to create a left sloping hill. Step 3- Begin adding detail and front elements. On my hand painted mural, I added leaves to the tree, a small evergreen at the floor level (bringing it to the forefront), an urn filled with greenery and flowers. In the stenciled mural, I added our Country Road Stencil and our Cypress Trees Background Stencil and our Background Garden Trees Stencil Step 4-Add finer detailing. On my hand painted mural, I added stone detail to the walkway, one stroke leaves and flowers to the foreground area in front of the walkway and on the stenciled mural, I added tiny hand painted strokes on the hill tops and side of the road to create what appears to be trees and plants. If I wanted to elaborate further on the stenciled mural, I could easily add a Life-sized Tree Stencil in the open space on the left of the wall and Floral Stencils all along the bottom portion of the mural to mimic a blooming flower bed. This would make the background seem very far in the distance and would finish the wall design beautifully! Having a background design when building a wall mural is very important in making it appear dimensional and more real. Then following the steps of moving forward with larger elements such as trees, columns, buildings and then finer details such as plants, pots, urns and so on, help you create a mural that is "believable".
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