Painting a design on a wall

[Ryan2g]

I'm wanting to re-do my room, starting off with a design on the wall.

How would I go about doing this? What kind of paint would I need? How would I get a design up onto the wall so I can paint it?

Any ideas or tips from anyone that's done this before?

Thanks.

[MR_Candyman]

sketch it with pencil, paint with either proper wall paint or acrylic paint

[buckboii]

sketch rough on paper or photoshop/illustrator then finalize

it then sketch it in the wall. I don't know, just my guess.

[Madoshi]

i have heard of people using overhead projectors, you know, the kind teachers use, with a design printed on a transparency, with good results.

Photoshop the design into a monochrome template, print it out onto a laser-printable transparency sheet, point the projector at the wall and turn it on, put the pattern on top. then trace it out on the wall.

[WizardCM]

i have heard of people using overhead projectors, you know, the kind teachers use, with a design printed on a transparency, with good results.

~snip

Thats also known as Photo-realism, and it's used by some artists. :p

[buckboii]

i have heard of people using overhead projectors, you know, the kind teachers use, with a design printed on a transparency, with good results.

Photoshop the design into a monochrome template, print it out onto a laser-printable transparency sheet, point the projector at the wall and turn it on, put the pattern on top. then trace it out on the wall.

true say, thats good. try it out.

[Ryan2g]

Thanks, didn't think of using an overhead projector. I'm going to borrow one from my friend.

Cheers again for that idea!

[Sethos]

Print out your design, flip it around, use a pencil and get graphite all over the lines on the back, put it on the wall with the graphite markings facing the wall - Draw on the original design and the graphite will be transferred to the wall, where the pencil touches the paper ( So it's important you get a nice layer of graphite on the lines ).

Crappy explanation but that's how I did it back when I was an painter.