How to Pick Colors for Child's Bedroom Mural

Video Transcript

"Next we're moving on to one of the most important things you're going to do for your mural, picking out painting colors. To start things off, it's coloring time. Act like a kindergardener or like the same age as the person whose bedroom you're painting for a second. What we're going to do is we're going to go back to our basic drawings, just rough drawing, and just literally color in with some colors we had in mind to how things are actually going to look in our mural. So go through color the various, you know, the lion the meerkats, the savanna grass, the sky, paint all, color all of those things in so then we can go into your painting store with an idea of what type of paint we're actually going to want for our project. Once you get to the painting store make sure that you mention that the paint that you're looking at today is for a mural. Most general wall paints can be used for murals you don't need super fancy wancy oil paints or the like, you can just get away with using general paints. But make sure to be upfront with what it's for they may send, have them send you in different directions and different products, they'll also be able to help you if you need brushes or related products for your mural. And what we're going to end up doing is for the coats of paint their going to, you know, have a lot of on there, like for the grass, for the sky. We're definitely going to get, you know, like our big gallon of paint for that. We want to make sure we don't run out and don't have to go back to the store. But for some of the more select colors, like say for that meerkat coat then for those we're also going to get smaller pint sized paint, you don't always have to get huge jug of paint. What's more, sometimes you'll use so little paint say like an eye or like a little bit of fur just a little bit where they have free paint samples at the store which you can use. a nice way to add to your mural with no additional expense."