Video: How to Paint Highlights on a Mural

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How to use colors you have in your painting to create highlights for a more realistic effect in your wall mural; 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: Hi, this is Angela with ExpertVillage.com. And in this segment, I'm just talking a little bit about the highlighting that we're doing in this children's mural. I kinda just use the window over here as a reference point because the window is coming in from here so I like my highlight to be on this side of the room. And so what I'm doing is all the highlights, as you can see, I've put on the tires to the left side of the room. And also I'm just adding in some little--since I've already colored it in a little bit, its kind of little details. I just have to paint in my bolts but I'm just kinda putting a little--and this is just white. Sometimes you can mix it with a little bit of medium to thin it out a little bit if your white is too thick. I like to usually start with a pretty thin white so it spreads pretty good, and I use my fingers a lot to blend stuff. That's where they get the term "messy artist," right? So I'm just going to keep filling in some highlights just wherever I feel like they need to be. I just need to make sure that I don't put them on the shadow side. So as I add in my highlights, I just need to make sure that's where the light source is coming in.

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How to Paint Highlights on a Mural

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