This hand painted motif adds charm and personality to this child’s bedroom. This touch of sophistication insures the child can grow up in this room well into their teens without outgrowing this decorative style.

In Series 1, painted stripe treatment, you learn how to create softly
rag rolled and striped yellow walls.
Series 2, adding hand-painted decorative scrolls, allows you to further embellish the room with decorative motifs.
Series 3, painting furniture, brings the room together by adding the final touches to furniture and room details.

There are 2 methods for transferring scroll patterns to your walls. In this tutorial we work directly on the wall. Symmetry is not the goal, rather a loose, whimsy decorative scroll appearance is desired.

Step 1:

Use a pencil and lightly sketch out your scroll pattern. Try to keep a nice, flowing movement. For scroll patterns and ideas visit the artSparx scroll catalog.

The second method for transferring scrolls to your wall is to trace out the pattern you desire on tracing paper. This allows you to make adjustments as necessary, fixing a curve here, erasing one there. Also, you can use the final scroll sketch as your master image and 'transfer' it onto you walls easily and with complete symmetry. For detailed instructions on transferring patterns click here.

On a paper plate (or paper palette), mix together your artist acrylic paints. Mix Raw Umber, Raw Seine and White together to create a taupe color. Using a No. 4 artist brush, paint over the pencil lines you’ve drawn in the previous step.

Adding shadow lines.

Step 5:

Using Raw Umber on your paper plate (or a palette), dilute enough to make fluid with water. Create shadow lines by painting over the white areas, but just on one side of the scroll only. This creates a 3-D effect and makes your scrolls ‘pop’ off the wall.