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Rosie

Posts:300

12/16/2007 9:50 AM	Alert
Here is an acrylic I did last Nov. I'd like to try acrylics on canvas, it's a mind thing that I have paint oils on canvas so long that it dosen't seem right for anything else but........lately I cannot seem to get the detail I want with oils..... This is a mural in the stress room of a cardiologists ( 8'x10'), I have several murals in his office. Rosie

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futurecreations

Posts:28

12/16/2007 3:54 PM	Alert
This is a beautiful wall mural...I have seen wall murals before at hospitals and various other places, but none as beautiful as this one! What did you use as reference? Was the entire painting done in acrylic or just the details. I was asked to do a skydiving wall mural for a local skydiver. I have never done a wall mural before and am honestly not sure where to begin.

Rosie

Posts:300

12/16/2007 5:12 PM	Alert
All the murals in his office were based on a Tuscan theme, This is a viila built in1587, the fountain have been running thru the years, even thru war. The entire piece is acrylic( I have been known to use some latex wall paint,but not on this one). Begin like it was anyother painting you have done befor.....don't be afraid, you can always paint over it, or start over....... The only thing I really hated about working on this one was that I could only work from noon to 5pm....and that there were patients veiwing it unfinished....I felt I needed tobe there to explain why this or that..... as the Dr. used that room every morning. Good luck with your mural.....Is it on the wall or ceiling...that would be cool. I've done ceilings.....hope it's not textured, those are a trip. Rosie

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futurecreations

Posts:28

12/16/2007 10:36 PM	Alert
Thanks for the advice. If I post this twice, I apologize, still kinda new at this stuff. Wasnt it expensive to use mostly acrylics? She wants it done on the wall, thank goodness, I'm not sure I would even consider doing one on the ceiling, that sounds so uncomfortable. I'm still trying to work out the composition in a small painting before I go any further, she requested that I center the diver/canopy and I'm letting that bog me down for some reason.

Rosie

Posts:300

12/17/2007 5:48 AM	Alert
It was a bit expensive at first, I have $600.00 invested in those paints. The cost of these paints should be figured in on the work. I have done 11 murals from them now, and only replacing the basics like white and the umbers....I always go thru a lot of burnt umber and sort of a charcoal color as base coat under foilage...since you will be seeing mostly sky, when designing your work get a gallon on latex interior wall paint, flat, that you can use as a basecoat. Pick up some paints at the craft store (Americana, Decoart) the acrylics they use on ceramics or wood projects. You can use these to change the values of the sky by mixing darks or lites to small quantities of that gallon. Your tools will get bigger too, I have used a roller to apply and feather out and blend with a 4" brush( use the cheap bristles at the paint store). I really enjoy murals the first one the hardest.....that big blank wall. Relax, it's only paint. Have fun! Rosie

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mikec@pols

Posts:877

12/17/2007 7:21 AM	Alert
As always,...Great work, Rosie!!!! I would love to see more of these??? Ok, for what's it's worth, here is my two cents on painting on walls. I've painted professionally since I was sixteen years old. (All phases, interior, exterior, automotive, marine, custom, mountain pipelines, dams, motorcycles to murals and everything in between...) What I've found to work the best and be the least expensive for murals is to buy the bottles of tint at the local paint store. You need to go to an actual paint store to purchase these, not a home improvement center (at least I've never seen them in one?). They range in price from $20-$40 a bottle (about 20oz.) and go a long, long way. You can just by the primary colors if you wish and go from there or you can buy a good assortment of colors, whichever works best for you. Then you have what you need to make ANY color that you want. You buy a gallon of the base latex that you need and you can make alot of colors out of one gallon of paint. If you have alot of sky, you buy a gallon of pale blue and tint all of your blues, purples and greens from it. lots of ground, darks or trees, you buy a gallon of med. brown and tint all of your darks and 'earth' colors from that...it's just alot less expensive in my opinion. And, it teaches me how to 'make' colors along the way...FUN! It is more time consuming, but I've found that you have more choices with less cost and you would still spend time mixing and blending with 'made' colors anyway. Annnnnnd, because of the excesive amount of acrylic in some acrylics, you may discover adhesion problems down the road...very seldom, but it does happen. Just my opinion... Mike

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Duende

Posts:83

12/17/2007 11:59 AM	Alert
Great Work Rosie! Love it! I've always wondered about doing a mural and what's used. . odly enough, my sister in law was asking me to do one next year at her house and I didn't have a clue until I read this post . . .so thanks for all your info Mike: Thanks for your info too, I really didn't know what was needed for a mural but this seems practical and I like the mixing possibilities! D~

bggordon

Posts:220

12/22/2007 11:46 PM	Alert
First Rosie, I love the mural here! very relaxing to look at! Nice work!. I've painted murals in military buildings when I was in the Army. I would have loved to have acrylic, I used what ever the common wall paint was then, it seemed to be the only choice at the time. This was about 24 years ago. I've done others as well like kids rooms and such. I'm always looking for ways to do it better and cheaper. Again Very well done!

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