HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
Show mother nature you care about her, and inspire everyone in the community to celebrate the earth. Celebrate Earth Day by painting wall murals on buildings, schools, or inner city areas around your neighborhood. This is your opportunity to paint a vast nature scene, your idea of how earth should look at its best, or just many symbolic wishes for Mother Earth. (photo by yomanimus)
Preparation
- Tubes of acrylic mural paint are ideal
- If that doesn't fit your budget, then you can use "ordinary" household paint and then use acrylic for the details.
- Make sure that you choose paint with a matte or eggshell finish so that they won't reflect light.
- Stencils of different sizes if you want a more uniformed appeal.
Steps
- Make sure the wall is clean, otherwise clean your wall first.
- If the wall is full of different colors, you can consider painting the entire wall with a base (or primer) color of white, for instance, for painting ease.
- Think of what you want to put on the wall, and you can either use the grid method or just let your creativity run fluidly on the wall.
- Ideas for what to paint: flowers, trees, bumblebees, a pond with ducks, a happy sun wearing sunglasses, happy children playing in a yard.
- After you’re done, apply a final graffiti-resistant finish which can range from protective wax coatings to 2-component, solvent-based polyurethane coatings. Both can be found at your local Home Depot or Lowe’s.
