A rainbow in a room on the wall can be a great option for interior renovation. The application of such a pattern requires the preparation of the walls and drawing the outline. In addition to the primer and paints, you will definitely need to stock up on a set of brushes so that the work is done as efficiently as possible.
A bright rainbow, provided that the work is done well, can become a worthy interior decoration. Such drawings are especially attractive in the interiors of children's rooms. The process of painting walls is not easy, as drawing a rainbow on the wall with paints is only the final part of the work. Before that, you need to carefully prepare the walls and transfer the outline of the drawing to them.
Preparing walls for painting
Walls should be carefully prepared before drawing. To do this, they are cleaned, leveled with soil or putty, which depends on the scale of irregularities. The final stage in the preparation of the walls is the primer. The most commonly used acrylic primer. It lays down well and dries quickly enough, within 2 - 4 hours. If you are going to paint a rainbow in a room with a high level of humidity, take care of the presence of a special moisture-resistant primer. You can also draw a rainbow on paintable wallpaper. It is important that their texture is not pronounced.
Contour drawing
Now you need to draw the outline of the image on the wall. There are several ways to draw a rainbow. The easiest one is to print a rainbow pattern. If the image is not very large, you can do this in a typography. A vinyl-backed template is most convenient. It is easy enough to stick and after drawing the pattern is also easily removed without leaving any traces.
You can also draw the contours of the rainbow by hand. If the drawing is very large, start with the bottom line, make sure it is straight, and then draw the rest of the rainbow parallel to this line.
For another way to draw a rainbow outline on a wall, you will need a long string, a large pushpin, and a pencil. Having decided on the center of the rainbow, fasten a pushpin slightly below with a thread tied to it. Tie a pencil to the free end of the thread. While pulling the thread, draw arcs with a pencil, to move to the next arc, simply increase the length of the thread.
Paint application
To adjust the density of the colors when painting a rainbow on the wall with your own hands, take a thick piece of cardboard and use it as a palette. If you want to make smooth color transitions, apply the main lines with a brush. And you can make transitions with a sponge brush, superimposing colors one on top of another.
For well-defined rainbow lines, use a thin brush around the edges of the lines so as not to overshoot the arc of the next color. The colors of the rainbow are drawn from top to bottom in the following order: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple.
