MURAL FINISHED!

Super Friends Finished!

I have always wanted to paint a mural.  I watched murals go up around town, looked at murals in other cities, have seen murals online and in magazines, etc. etc.  I wanted to try it and see if I could do it.  Smaller scale was good for the first try, bedroom wall size (not building size!).  I let my kids choose their themes or picture, bought paint, made plans, and then jumped right into it.  Don't forget that these pictures weren't all taken today, but over time!  The first picture is from today, the final finished product!  Now the boys can sleep in their own room ALL NIGHT LONG---because the super friends will protect them!

First, we chose the picture (you see it taped to the wall?)

I take that back, FIRST I painted the wall a new color that would be them primary color of the mural background.  Then I penciled on the figures.  Then I added stripes with a little painter's tape.

Painted in the stripes with a little help from the bedroom owners.  I used interior latex paint for the wall main color, and interior latex paint for the stripes.  But now the rest of the mural was paint with craft acrylics (you know the ones in the little bottles at Wal-Mart?).  I did order mine online though from an art supply store.  But very inexpensive.  They are water-based for easy clean-up, and then permanent when dried.

Here comes Batman, Superman, and Green Lantern.  I was really surprised how little paint it took to paint on top of the slick wall surface.  Much less than when painting a wood craft or something like that with the same paint.

Wonderwoman barely made the cut of being in this mural.  She is pretty modest in this version!

 

So today, I finished it.

How do you like it, Andrew?

It's good....

That is his only response for his dear mother who just spent hours painting his wall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But then he did like posing with it for pictures!