I would sujest that you decide what is your focus, what do you want people to notice first. A certain tree, plants, animal? Place those on the wall with a light pencil setch or traceing paper thumbnails. Use as many photo referances as needed. After you have your main focus parts of the mural in place- the rest will just fill in with the referance photos. Large piecies of tracking paper can be used to move( just a thumbnail outline of the object) if you are not sure where to place your focus objects. Murals are so much fun.

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Amy J. Gagnon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi again,

I have a question for all those mural painters out there (I've been asked to do a mural and I've never really done one this large before)

To create a mural of lets say, a forest- from ground level to the canopy above, do you use many reference photos and put them together in photoshop? Or do you take panoramic photos? Or simply print them and tape them together?

I think if I was to do a lot more murals in the future, I might like one of those 360 degree panoramic cameras. At the moment, I have about 200 photos (that don't at all match up). I've resorted to getting them printed and I will lay them out on my floor and tape them together.

Looking forward to suggestions!

Amy

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