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Summary: If multiple walls are being painted for a mural, a theme should connect them. Learn how to paint a wall mural with art lessons from this free video.
LaWrence Curtis realized his arts vocation at an early age when he began to express the unique quaintness of his hometown of Barnsley, Yorkshire (England) on canvas. At age 17,...read more
" So because this tiger is floating in mid-air, I've decided to create, like a hilltop, and then run that hilltop all the way across the mural. We're going to put another, this is a very rough sketch. We're going to put another tiger in here. I'm going to extend, in front of the Taj Mahal, is a large pond. So I'm going to extend that all the way down to where these grasses, this hilltop comes. Now this, the whole hilltop will be covered in flowers. Many different colors of wildflowers. And we have the trees that come down in front of the Taj Mahal. So then in the distance, we will create these snow-capped mountains, and hills, and a river. All, flowing all the way down and opening up here, into the ocean. So we will have a beachhead here. This is actually the door of the restaurant to the kitchen, so we're going to paint all the way over that door, keep these mountains coming down, and then a very beautiful cloudy sky, against blue. So this will run all the way. So these mountain range will run all the way around, all the way around across all the walls. Creating a theme of this, the mountains will be higher in this area. Creating a theme of this river opening into lakes, and flowing all the way down into the ocean. "
eHow Article: Connecting Mural Walls with Themes