This is a mural commissioned by a Latino restaurant-pub the MDF white panel for this project, as the surface is ideal for
mural is to represent a Brazilian feast and will hang on the walls airbrushing. To prepare the surface for the painting process
of their dance ballroom. Besides the Brazilian feast theme the I sanded it using 60 grit sand paper followed by a good clean-
customer requested the final mural be very colorful. ing with a degreaser and one light coat of an acrylic promoter
Because this is a large mural I have chosen to use melamine
which was than sanded with 320 grit sand paper.
To transfer my design concept onto the I begin the painting process by spraying I’ve decided to start with the background
painting surface I made use of a trans- the main colors of the design in order which is the largest area to be painted.
parent sheet projector, I transfer the to separate each part of the scene. This I prepare my sky color with acrylic white
design over the panel and I draw it with part of the painting process I go about paint mixed with blue tinting liquid bought
an aquarelle pen. The aquarelle pen was quickly just roughing the colors in where in a hard ware store. With my IWATA
used because it will not be invisible under they need to be. spray gun I paint the background by
the colors I’m about to apply.
spraying two light coats.
I add more blue tint to my blue sky paint
To achieve the right balance of color be-
With my blue scale paints and white us-
and shade it to the upper part to give
tween the sky and the sea, I give to the ing my airbrush I continue to add detail
some depth to my sky. Be careful to keep
water a blue tropical color by adding few to the sea.
a light blue, acrylics tend to become dark-
drops of green in a very light blue paint.
er after drying.
In the areas where the sea is deeper, I
spray a coat a dark blue until I get nice
contrasted of colors like you find on tropi-
cal beaches.
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