I want to paint the wall of my bedroom like below. I have enough painting skills to paint the whole house, straight. So I believe I can pull this out. But I wanted check about the methods.
- For the color tones, can I use those 2 edge colors(dark blue & beige), and white to tone them, and to give the gradient look for each layer?
- What are those colors?
- What kind of tools I need? A regular brush for all of it? Or brush for the
edges, and a roller for the insides? - What kind of paint I need? Wall paint? or should I use some kind of
oil paint? Acrylic or watercolor? - Is this doable for an amateur?
Best Answer
A quart typically covers ~ 100 sqft. A pint or 8oz per color ought to do it. Pints at a big box store are less than $5, and one store seems to have a 50% sale on these sizes.
To find works by other people, Google image search for: mountain wall mural layered. In comparing them, try to identify particular aspects of the ones you like that make them work so well. Also, relative to those murals, take into account your flooring color, furniture colors etc. This will aid in assessing whether to 'tint with white' or get the store to mix each tint.
Print out a color image of mural of your choice (maybe take the URLs to Kinkos or Staples or a photo store and ask them to print it to 'match'), take the print to the paint store, find color swatches that match.
Here is a blog post that describes the tinting:
http://www.trailtosummit.com/create-a-mountain-mural/
Here are very detailed step instructions, including wine and including a photo showing all their paint chips with codes:
http://kristinatravels.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-to-paint-mountain-mural.html
Your person wrote a blog post about her process:
http://pamlostracco.blogspot.com/2014/05/mountain-mural.html
Here are time lapse videos showing a different people doing similar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQGZi75w5LY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPE5G2SR0Zs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVQ8mPmSZS8