Without seeing your design it's hard to give advice. I think you're looking for a trompe l'oeil -- to fool the eye? There are lots of stencil places that sell designs, but if you have your own design you can try it first. How big are you thinking of? Is it a realistic design or a graphic? You can get a roll of shelfpaper, cut it into strips to equal the size of your design. Draw it out - cut around it and tack it into place till you get an idea of what you want. Once you have a definite size and style you can start working on the details. Whatever you choose, plan/design it on paper with the proper measurements so you don't get surprised halfway through painting the wall :)
www.victorialarsen.com has stencils, molds etc on her website plus a lot of information. I've used several things of hers and been pleased. You might be able to borrow/check out an overhead projecter from the local library to project your design on the wall. I have a little projector you can get in the craft store but it won't project too large. I think a lot will depend on exactly what you have in mind. I love to stencil trees with sheetrock mud, gives a subtle 3-d effect. Again, depending on your design you could do it in paper maiche and when dry attach it to the wall. If it's lines you might try real wire to give it a 3-d effect.
Hope some of this helps, if you can post a picture of your design others might be of more help. Paper maiche wall art is very popular right now and easy to do. 3-D would have some texture, 2-D would be a flat drawing that you could design to suggest something else. Another person have an example of what she had done, it is what's called trompe l'oeil.
On Sep 11, 2011, at 3:27 PM, subprong wrote:
Thanks for the responses Jan, crafty and Ray. I'm interested in creating some sort of 3D-ish mural or some sort of design on an interior wall. I'm not an artist so it can't be anything very difficult.
They do sell some kits. You basically have transfer sheets that you trace the supplied drawing onto the wall and then do a paint-by-number thing. I've also read a few ways that you can transfer your own drawing. One by a projector. The other by scanning into Photoshop, printing it piece by piece, attaching carbon paper then drawing it onto the wall.
I do have a design that I'd like to try but am still open to other things. I'm not exactly sure if this would be considered 3D. I'd like to draw (then paint the lines) this into a corner of a wall (interior corner, not an exterior corner). I imagine this would look normal when viewed at the central angle but look skewed at any other angle. I don't know the technique for drawing it so that the lines are correct going from one wall to the other when looking from afar.
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Jan Flood
<jan.flood2@att.net> wrote:
What type of 3-D art? Computer? Sculpting? Videos? Paper Maiche Wall Art? 3-D Quilting?
On Sep 11, 2011, at 1:54 AM, subprong wrote:
By slim chance are there any members who know something about creating 3D art?
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