Stretching The Comfort Zone: Tips for Painting Art on a Wall

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Tips for Painting Art on a Wall

Last night I took a leap of faith in my artistic talent. I decided to go ahead to paint my wall a picture of my mother's 'rumah kampung' (village's house). It is definitely something new, working on a much bigger space; using a new media; without much knowledge of mixing paint to form various colours.

Here are some tips I've come up with:

Pre-mix a colour that you use a lot in large amount(suffice for the whole project)
You could add tints and shades to the colour without worrying how to mix the colours again
Charcoal is easy for rough lines on the wall but proves to be a bug when it mixes with the paint when I start applying paint
Work in stages (i tried to go for the whole look before enough preparation)

I am still in the process of painting it. Here's what happened

The canvas before