Video: How to Fill Mural Background

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Using your tools to add color to fill the background you've just laid out for your wall mural painting; learn tips and techniques for painting wall murals in this free online art lesson about painting murals taught by expert Angela Bracasso.

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ANGELA FRACASSO: I'm Angela from ExpertVillage.com and in the last couple of segments, we had talked about how to get in the sky to fade out and then in the last room, we just started filling in the background color. On this one, I'm just kinda blending it in a little bit so it's not too dark. I don't want it to be too dark of a color and so I'm just kinda wiping it off, kind of a mixing it to kinda make it almost-almost kinda like a full finish like what you would do. And in that way, I when I come in with my detail, I can paint in my detail and then this isn't so obvious. I'm just trying to get the basic color of the sand on there. So, I just dry brush it on and then let it set for a minute and then I just kinda go over it a little bit with a rag to try to make it a little bit more even. In that way it doesn't look like there's brushstrokes everywhere. It just kinda colored it in in that way. I'm going to put in my detail. It will look a lot better so...

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How to Fill Mural Background

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