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Decorating My (new) House - Murals ideas

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fozboy
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All,

I have recently bought a house (1st time), ARGH, and wanted to keep my own signiture/touch to it. So I wanted to decorate/paint/graffiti one of the walls in the Living Room.

i want a mountian to be the focus it, but with some detail (skiers, lines) across etc. Im not sure if i dreamt it up or saw it on some ski graphics, but i am imagining some along the lines of K2 Obsethed... Graffiti style-esque black out line and detail, with white and blue colour making up snow and shadows, sky. etc....

Please if you have idea, pics, links, art that you think would be good, let me know....

Cheers,

Fossie

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Feb 11 2011 9:41AM
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ganja_enthusiast
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sounds sick
i really dont have anything to share but bump
Feb 11 2011 8:50PM
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jea_toney
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painted my bedroom in my appt from last semester
project needed to be done quick and I never bothered adding to much detail. I would recommend though getting a solid base layer down that is done real loose and abstract. Just blocking out potential areas where you want more detail then after your loose base area go back and add the detail you want. i.e more definitive graffiti style mountains, skiers, and etc...

also maybe look into grabbing some montana paint markers if your looking to outline anything. The are completely opaque and will go over anything underneath
Feb 12 2011 4:27PM
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fozboy
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Nice one!

Feb 15 2011 4:46AM
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freeskibum82
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if you are looking to paint it yourself, hit up michaels for the large pre stretched canvas and get 3 to make a triptych. Use acrylic as its the easiest medium to work with. The triptych allows you to space them apart to fit the wall as you need.

if you are looking to buy. hit up one of the starving artist sales and get murals for about $50. Or check with your local college art department to see if any students are looking for some work to paint it for you.
Feb 15 2011 9:42AM
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fozboy
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Fressskibum thank you muchly!!! nice ideas, much appreciated.will follow 'em up
Feb 17 2011 3:17AM
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Will.T
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OMG!!! a big J-CROWN!
Feb 17 2011 8:57PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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png. work here???
Feb 18 2011 10:59AM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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good.... ^ that's pretty basic and cool, no details of skiers though.

Here's one right up nser's alley.
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oooooohhhh dude, this for sure. You must secure an old chair for this idea though.
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pretty sick down the stairs hahaha
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more of a close up here.
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Feb 18 2011 11:18AM
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fozboy
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ah i like this!!!!! pretty simple but think it would work well....!!!

And i Like the Down the stairs painting.. could defo do somefink similar

nice one

Feb 20 2011 2:21PM
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fozboy
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That chairlift is friggin sweeet!!!!
Feb 20 2011 2:22PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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It'd be straight sick to do it all legit like with a mural of mad river glen with a single chair hanging in your living room.
Feb 21 2011 12:36AM
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zorgavesan
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I will suggest you to hire a interior professional. If you want to do it then first of all take a small part and do experiment on that. Because some time it happened that you don't like the color after colored. So take a small portion before..

architectural services
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