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Summary: Paint a mural with texture, movement, and three-dimensional qualities. 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 we've been working on the tiger here, and the hills in the distance. Now we're going to expand it around to the point where I paint the tree. There will be more mural that way, but that will come at a future date. So the tree here, which will be another mango tree, will be the completion of this section of the mural, that we're working on now. And then you'll get to see the rest of the mural once we've completed this. So, right now I'm going to continue working on the mountains in the background and doing more detail, which I've already done on this section here. It's not fully completed, but I'm going to start to extend it across the wall now. Mountains in the whole mural is the same throughout, so I'm using a brown base, and then taking this yellow to create texture, movement within the mountains. And then what I'll do at the base of the mountains is put just a little bit of green. Again, just creating a little bit more depth and texture. I wanted to break it with this range of brown mountains, just to give the whole thing more depth. "
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