How to Get a Window Mural Job

Series Summary

Is your small business struggling to make ends meet? Do you feel like you have a great location, but nobody notices your storefront? Have you found your décor to be a bit dull or boring? Well, aside from plastering garish posters all over the place and investing in a few poorly-chosen neon atrocities, you could look into hiring a professional artist to paint some advertising murals on your windows. Not only does window art draw the eye, it allows you to represent to the public, in a creative way, what your business offers… to pique the curiosity of passers by and get them wondering what products your shop sells or what services you provide.

In this free video guide to commercial art, get tips on how to paint a storefront window mural. Our expert will drop a few hints as to where to advertise your painting services. She’ll also show you how to sketch some mock up designs, how to prepare the window surface, how to transfer your designs and sketches, what types of paints and brushes to use, and techniques for painting in your artwork and achieving a professional look. Follow the advice in these videos and you’re on your way to building a career as a freelance commercial artist, or just making some extra money doing something you love to do.

Video Transcript

"On behalf of expertvillage.com my name is Carolyn Travisano and I'm here to tell you about window murals. So today we're at Sedona Coffee Roasters in Sedona where I negotiated a job to do their front two door windows and six bottom windows and I'm also going to display one for you how I did the process up here. How I go about negotiating the job is I see if I walk into a business and basically see if there's a need there. If they need a little bit more creativity, different colors, brightness, some windcycle design and Sedona Coffee Roasters is actually going through a process right now where they're doing a lot of renovation so I though this would be the perfect opportunity to step in. I've actually talked to them about doing mural designs and some faux finishing and I also helped them pick out their color pallet. So the beginning process of the negotiation is where I sit down with the owner or the manager and we sit out designs. What we did is I have my designs up here of the different sketches that I'm going to paint on the window. Basically we just took some of the ideas that they have on the menu which were breakfast we're going to do muffins, lunch we're going to do sandwiches and of course all their coffee drinks and smoothie drinks and so basically in a very windcylce technique I'm going to be painting those on the window."