Decorating Ideas for Painting Murals on a Girl's Wall
- Your daughter's favorite manga character can inspire a mural.manga styled samurai girl image by Anastasia Serdyukova from Fotolia.com
A girl's room should reflect who she is. Very often a young girl expresses this in her room by hanging posters and artwork of her favorite people or movie characters. However, alternatives to the common poster do exist. Consider painting a mural on her wall instead. The wide range of pictorial images available will help ensure that she ends up with a mural that's the perfect reflection of her tastes. - An abundance of inspiration for a wall mural exists in the pages of storybooks and graphic novels, as well as in films. Many illustrated stories have multiple characters. Because of this, you have the option of painting more than one character in your mural and on more than one wall. Start out by flipping through your source materials. If it's a graphic novel series, you may have a couple of books to go through. If you feel you're skilled enough to paint the mural yourself, you can project the image from the book onto the wall with a projector. You'll draw in the characters with pencil and then paint them once your rough drawing is complete. If you don't possess the skills to do this, hire a local artist who specializes in mural-sized work. Finally, if you know you'll be painting a mural on your daughter's wall, you may want to plan the room's decor and color scheme around the colors you'll use in the character mural.
- Sometimes you don't have to even leave your house to get away. If the girl for whom you're painting this mural loves the great outdoors, draw inspiration from photos you've taken on vacation, from stunningly produced travel books or postcards that people have sent over the years. This theme is actually open to quite a bit of interpretation. You have the option of just painting the mural on the wall as-is, or you can make it appear as if the room extends into the great outdoors. For example, if you've re-created a forest scene, look for beds made of logs and twigs with the bark still intact, place potted plants next to the mural and throw a comforter on the bed that has matching colors.
- Variations on how to put together a mural exist. While many people paint scenery only, if your daughter loves a certain author, you can use quotes in your mural. Use the quotes to inspire illustrations based on them. You also have the option of using decorative fonts to create the mural. For example, if your daughter loves the look of the illustrated manuscripts so prevalent in ancient Europe, re-create one of the pages on the wall using a modern story but in an old font. This type of design scheme works well for the girl who loves books as well as the history associated with them.
