So we've already gone over some of the strokes, and now we're going to go to the wall and look at how some of those strokes are applied. So for this, we started with a basic stone finish over the whole wall using the rag. Again, really easy, you just dip it in the paint, scrunch it up, drag it, pull it, smear it until you get a nice random finish that roughly resemble stone and then from here on out, everything you see was done with these two brushes right here. This one is a flat, synthetic sable watercolor brush, it has a very, very soft, soft bristle, and this can be used to produce everything you see here. You can run that side, and it can do all these nice, little delicate wispy vines, stroke it at an angle to create all these different leaves, and then you can actually load the brush with different colors as we saw earlier, say half the brush in white, half the brush in yellow, and then just go through and create this little fiddle-neck bloom here, and then white and lavender to create the flowers in the vase, different shades of green you can create the leaves you see here. And then, for the real small stuff, just grab a smaller brush, dab in the tiny little buds, some of the filaments in the flower, highlights in the dove's eyes, and some of the smaller vines we see here. So, as you can see, there's a whole lot you can do with just a rag and two brushes, nothing to it. And there you have it, the basics of mural painting. We've covered the materials you're going to need, some of the inspiration to help get the wheels turning, and some of the techniques to apply them. So, grab a brush and run amuck.
cab47
Aug 02, 2008
