now that we've let our under painting of bluedry, we have a wonderful canvas on which to start creating our mural with this great,great blue color which is going to be our water and the back ground. now there are anumber of ways you can start creating your sea creatures on the wall. you don't wantto just start painting them. we need some guidelines here. one way of doing this isby cutting something out, basically, like paper and cardboard, using it as a stencil,where you then would outline it in pen. another way is, they even have paint by numbers youcan do, where you actually also put things on your walls and you're able to go throughthe patterns. they have grids where you can convert a picture onto a wall. i'm going tobe essentially free handing it today because
i happen to be an artist and i'm sure thereare plenty of artists in your area where you may be able to commission them to do a muralfor you, if you don't necessarily have tons of artistic talent yourself. but that's notrequired today as you will see. now working in a bit of a tight bathroom like we're doingtoday, having a short pen is really, really great. you don't need a big huge one becausewe want to make sure we have a lot of flexibility because you might have a wall right back herelike i do. so we're going to start by drawing something relatively simple, seaweed. seaweednow is going to be towards the bottom of your wall because it's going to be coming up fromthe ocean floor like it does in real life, at least a lot of seaweed and basically, takeyour black pen here and just start doing some
squiggle marks up. a lot of seaweed is notstraight. don't worry about keeping the lines absolutely, equidistant from each other. it'snot the point here. what we want to do is start getting some nice interesting strandsof seaweed going upwards towards the surface of our mural. repeat this about four or fivetimes until you start getting a nice little clump of seaweed. you don't want to over doit and what we're going to do is, we'll be having other little clumps of seaweed offthe the left and right. you don't want to make it solid because you want space and contrastand difference in your mural but at the same time it's nice to have some vegetation. that'show it is in the real ocean.
