Make Your Own Wall Murals from Shadows

Wall murals are lovely, and can add a certain elegance to a room, but for quality murals you'll pay big money. Even then, you're limited to designs that the manufacturer chooses. You can have any design you want, though, when you make the murals yourself. And, in fact, you can make dozens of your own murals for the price of one manufactured mural.

Most wall murals are scenes that are printed onto paper, which is then affixed to the wall. And whether they're pre-pasted, peel-n-stick, or transfers, you'll spend a good amount of time getting the murals onto the wall. After that, you have to worry about furniture bumping and scraping the art. Or, perhaps the biggest worry, making sure things like sunlight or dust don't damage the mural and cause it to become unsightly.

If you make your own murals, they can be washed down, touched up, and otherwise bumped and abused. That's because your own murals will be hand drawn onto the walls. Say you're no artist? You don't have to be! It's easy to draw just about anything onto your wall when you use shadows as your guide.

We've all seen shadows on our walls when we have lamps on at home. The shadows can become the patterns for your wall mural. A houseplant, for example, can be set on a small table or chair, with a bright lamp behind it, so that the shadow from the plant is cast upon the wall. Use paint pens to outline the image of the plant. It's easy and very accurate.

You can outline the image, and leave it at that, or you can fill in the blank areas of the object using your choice of paint pen color. Paint pens come in a huge variety of colors, including metallic colors and pearl-like shades. After you've accumulated a small assortment of colors you can do many murals.

The objects you use are almost unlimited. A bunch of balloons, a chair and lamp, an artificial tree - just about anything that casts a shadow can become part of your wall art. All that's necessary is the bright light and the object itself.