PAINTED FLOWER WALL MURAL ARTWORK
All it takes to make this gorgeous flower wall mural is paint, FrogTape, and patience! A stunning addition to any space.
Equipment
- Paint Brush 4" roller, and small paint tray
- FrogTape® Delicate Surface brand painter's tape
Ingredients
- Paint in a variety of colors (for this project, golden yellow, green, deep teal, white, and dark gray were used)
Instructions
- NOTE: In between each coat, cover your tray, brush, and roller with clear plastic wrap, instead of washing everything out.
- Start with a circle of yellow for the center of your flower. This circle was about 1.5' around. It doesn't need to be perfect -- you'll be painting over the edges anyway. It took about 20-30 minutes between each coat of paint. The whole project took about four days, painting layers around other responsibilities.
- Once dry, use your Frog Tape to tape off two straight lines sort of opposite of each other, but not quite. Then paint 9" to 12" or so out from that line. Wait to dry, add a second coat. Remove the FrogTape.
- Then add two more strips of FrogTape to start creating the shape of your flower. Paint away from those two pieces of tape, like you did for the first strips. Then keep building your way out, mixing new shades as you go.
- You'll notice that you're covering up large swaths of wall you've already painted, but don't worry about it -- that's just what happens with this technique. Continue to build outward, mixing new colors and continuing the gradient. In the beginning, two strips per color painted, but as the design went out a third was added, like in this green layer.
- When you get to the edges, carefully paint up to the adjoining wall and ceiling.
- When you get toward the edge and the darkest of the grays, finish off the wall with the rest of the dark gray. Carefully tape off a geometric shape around the edge of the flower and paint the rest of the wall dark gray.
- Use the regular FrogTape to tape off the baseboard.
- After two coats of gray paint, the masterpiece was done!
