Tuesday 23 February 2016

Painting murals

It's been along time since I painted a mural so I thought it was about time I got creative in the house!  Our middle one was spending more time in our room at night than in her own, (I'm sure many of you can relate) It was driving us a little mad, a three year old tornado who kicked you and stole the covers in the night!  My cunning plan was to make her room so lovely she wouldn't want to leave it!
My ponderings took me to painting a mural.  I have done a few in the past and I have to say they work much better if you can work solidly on them rather than a stolen 10 minutes here and there.  But I had to work with what I had!
These pictures are a little dark I'm afraid, I took them at bedtime so that you could see the pretty fairy lights.  They are actually little butterflies which I staple gunned around the edge of the tree.


You may recognise some of the illustrations from past posts, I tried to keep them in keeping with the portraits I create.


Emily is just showing the size of the images.  It is quite a small room so quite difficult to photograph with out distorting things somewhat.



We had this odd box in the corner of her room which actually covers a slop from the stairwell ceiling.  this made a great spot for a seat.  I upcycled an old foam mattress (I made a right mess throughout the house cutting this up! Foam everywhere.)  I then covered is in a scrap of fake suede. It's quite deep but looks fab and is mega comfy as it has a memory foam top!  I was hoping it would make a nice nook to read.



I really struggled with what paint to use.  I bought some tester pots and used those mostly. When I needed more colour I mixed acrylic paint in white emulsion.  This seemed to work well.  

I then used a thick perminant maker to go around all the edges.  Over all I liked the effect. 

Here is a little video I took.




Well that's it for now!  I have decided I will be moving my blog to my website soon.  I am trying hard to have fewer things to maintain so moving my blog will help me keep my website up to date too... hopefully!  I will keep you posted however!
Well I'm off to visit homemade Monday so see you there xx 

Jenny xx

10 comments:

  1. Very cool mural. I love the light up butterflies and flowers on the curtains too.

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  2. Awh, I love this. It is so cute. Did you paint straight onto the wall or lining paper? YEARS(and 2 houses ago) I did a jungle mural on one of the kids walls. I wanted bright colours so I uses gloss and straight on the wall - I'm pretty sure it's still there under someone else's wall paper!
    The lamp is so pretty too, I'm assuming it makes stars all over the room at night - how lovely!

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    1. Sounds fantastic!!! The lamp does shine stars on the walls although not quite as much as I hoped it would to be honest. I put a dull bulb so she sleeps with it on but I guess if I put a brighter one in it might shine more. Xx

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  3. Amazing! I am not good at painting, but when I see beautiful murals like this, I wish I was!

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    1. Ahh thanks honey. It is a lovely thing to do but even if your not good at paintings there's loads you could do, I see there are loads of decals available now to go on walls. I even spotted a wallpaper map yesterday which covers an entire wall. Xx

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  4. Amazing! I am not good at painting, but when I see beautiful murals like this, I wish I was!

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  5. Fantastic, every child's dream bedroom and to do it yourself so special, Can never have too many fairy lights

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    1. I think that may be my new motto!! You can never have enough fairy lights xx

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  6. What a pretty room, the butterflies are really adorable and that little star lamp is perfect for a night light. Well done :)

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