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Summary: How to use a projector to place your drawing on the wall to review final image and placement; learn tips and techniques for painting wall murals in this free online art lesson about painting murals taught by expert Angela Bracasso.
Angela Fracasso has been running her own business for over three years, creating murals for residential homes and business clients.read more
"ANGELA FRACASSO: Hi, this is Angela with ExpertVillage.com. In this segment, I'm talking about getting your image on the wall for the children's wall mural. Again, we're doing a construction mural. So what I did is I went online and I just found photographs of different tractors and dump trucks and things, and I drew them up onto the wall. It's okay if you mess up. That's what pencils are for. They erase right off the wall, and you can get the eraser marks off with a damp rag. What I started with over here is we put the--we laid out the trucks and then we put a roller down here. And I actually didn't like the way that the roller turned out and so I was able to erase the entire thing off and then re-put this one up. I struggled a little bit with the roller and so I projected that up with an art projector. And you can find art projectors at any crafts store. You can find them online. So, anyways. "
eHow Article: Projecting Images for a Mural