Have you ever admired a creatively painted wall but assumed it would be too difficult to tackle yourself? Large wall art may be easier than you’d think. This past week I’ve been working on the feature wall for my son’s bedroom makeover so thought I would pop in and share my progress and the tips and tools that I have used over the years.
The first step in creating any wall art is deciding on a design. I was inspired by a graphic I saw online so I recreated something similar by purchasing graphics of a halftone pattern and pop art cartoon bubbles from Creativemarket.com Once I had the layout ready, I start by prepping the walls and giving the walls a fresh base coat. The next step is to transfer the design to the wall. When it comes to transferring, I rarely transfer a design by hand drawing it anymore because there are so many time saving tools available.
On the pop art wall I used a combination of projector and stencil.
Projectors are great when you can project the full design on the wall. They are pretty straight forward and easy to operate. While I recommend the projector method, keep in mind, they are not perfect in every situation. Projectors become tricky if you have a full wall design and you can’t get the projector back far enough to project the entire design. In those cases you will have to move the projector around and every time you move the projector the scale of the design can change. It’s a bit of a headache to match up where you left off and projectors can distort the image slightly .
Projectors are great when you can project the full design on the wall. They are pretty straight forward and easy to operate. While I recommend the projector method, keep in mind, they are not perfect in every situation. Projectors become tricky if you have a full wall design and you can’t get the projector back far enough to project the entire design. In those cases you will have to move the projector around and every time you move the projector the scale of the design can change. It’s a bit of a headache to match up where you left off and projectors can distort the image slightly .
I had to do the move and match game on the pop art wall and while it’s a little extra work, it’s still doable. But make sure you have some Tylenol in the house first. By the way, do you like my fancy projector stand? I needed the projector to be up extra high and setting the projector on a ladder wasn’t cutting it. The stacking plastic drawers were perfect because I could make them as high or as short as I needed. I have to admit I was pretty pleased with myself when I came up with that solution. My family was less impressed but obviously they don’t know genius problem solving when they see it!
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