How To: Good Verses Evil Mural

1. First I stained wood molding to boarder the mural area and installed the molding.
2. The wall had an interesting texture applied by the builder and I thought it would make the bronze paint look like hammered metal, so I left the texture alone.
3. Then I painted the entire area black inside the molding.
4. Next I marked off an area to serve as a black boarder for the mural.
5. Next I drew the mural on the wall with chalk so I could see it against the black background. If you can’t draw, enlarge a photo of the subjects for your mural. On the back of the enlargement mark chalk all over the entire back of the copy. Put the photo copy right side up on the wall and draw over the copy of the photo. The chalk from the back will transfer the photo to the wall.
6. I began to paint paying close attention to shadows. It was strange painting copper over the black because I didn’t draw any lines I just filled in the light parts of the drawing leaving the black background to show through for the lines and shadows– something like using black scratch board.
7. When the painting was completely dry – a few weeks later - I used dammar varnish to seal the painting.