How To Paint A Tree On A Wall

If you paint on walls, sooner or after a friend or two will ask you to paint on their wall. And sooner or afterwards you'll be asked to pigment two things – clouds and a tree.

I dunno why, just tree murals are my #1 request. Thank goodness, considering clouds are a real pain in the neck.

Literally.

By the way, the mural in this room will soon take clouds on the ceiling. Yes, they emailed me this morning time.

I have a super easy manner to paint copse. Here'south what I utilise:

I have two 'secret weapons'. 1) a foam roller and 2) Floetrol.

Only recently I've featured two posts by some pretty popular gals – Kimba @ A Soft Place to Land and Kate @ Centsational Girl. They both utilise Floetrol to paint wood furniture. It's crawly for that.

Just for wall murals? Specially on textured walls? I tin't do without it. It helps go the paint into the nooks and crannies, besides but helping the pigment flow really smoothly.

Anyhow, the first affair I do is load my cream roller in Floetrol, then pick up some brown paint. I or ii shades, information technology really doesn't matter.

Once you roll on the brown (and information technology'll be kinda lite), have a regular pigment brush (like a trim castor or even a chip brush volition work) and add some vertical lines to the tree torso. Besides use your castor to smooth out any roller marks or blotches.

It helps to accept a friend at this bespeak because you'll take your roller, your paintbrush and your paint palette. If your friend holds i of the three, information technology'll save your knees some wear and tear from going up and downward the ladder.

I'grand just sayin' . . .

Subsequently I've rolled on the entire torso and smoothed it out with a castor, I add a few branches. These are intentionally short branches for this tree, only yous could brand yours as long as you want.

I rolled every bit much as I could, but had to use the brush for a lot of the painting.

After I've rolled on the starting time glaze I take my paintbrush and add some more of the brown paint hither and there.

Side by side I roll on a couple of shades of green. I don't fifty-fifty rinse the foam roller. Too hard to get all the water out and you'll take drips everywhere. Let some of the residual brown mix with your green – works quite nicely.

You lot could really leave your tree like this if you lot wanted to. Only I wanted to lighten and burnish this tree upwardly a bit.

I rolled on some lime greenish over my first coat of greenish.

Then with a actually light green I started painting leaves.

But I knew this was gonna take a while and if I'm on a ladder, I don't want anything to take a 'while'.

Then I started mush-pushing the lightest green. The vertical arrow shows my mushies. The horizontal arrow on the upper right shows the leaves.

Not much difference is there.

You tin read how I practice the mush-push here but basically it'due south taking an edge of a flat castor and pushing the paint onto the wall.

Then just add a dinosaur and your tree's all done!

Or not.

Source: http://justpaintitblog.com/2011/05/how-to-paint-a-simple-tree-mural-2/

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