Painting a Wall Mural

In the Dining Room Wall Mural project, I started by measuring up the wall at a height equal to what I had done in the Living room. After that I made sure that the horizontal line around the walls in the Dining Room were level, then it was time to paint on the light beige base coat on the bottom half of the wall. I followed that with a 3 inch border on top to separate the top half of the wall from the bottom, like a chair rail. After that I painted the top half of the walls a light green base coat.



The next step was to paint the actual Wall Mural. I like nature very much, so I thought a nature theme would do well. I find trees, shrubs, rocks, etc. are easy to paint. I used a watered down acrylic black paint for most of the work, adding white and grey for the highlights. I finished by stenciling the bottom portion of the wall, and painting the "Chair Rail" to mimic wood.





I was very pleased with how this turned out. It looks brighter, and feels totally different than the solid terracotta wall color did. It's a happy feeling in the dining room now! It did tale a little time to accomplish this but as you can see there was a little more work involved than just painting the walls... By the way, I also painted a Full Moon into the scene on one if the walls, so I can always see one. :)