How I Paint Murals - Mural Tutorial Video

Hey, I'm Ten Hundred. I'm an artist from Seattle, Washington. Today, I am painting a mural at Dozer's Warehouse. This place is super crazy. There's tons of artists from all over the place just going crazy. Everything's covered in paint. Epic, amazing pieces from super creative people. My friend Dozer invited me to do a mural here. So I was like, yeah, I'm so down to do that. I was there the next day. What is Dozer's Warehouse? Well, how about we have him tell you? That'd be cool. I'm Crick Launt, a.k.a. Dozer Art. I'm an artist muralist from Seattle, Washington. So this warehouse was a beacon arts community space that they had given to them, and they brought me in to curate it. And so I figured, why not invite some of my favorite artists from all around to come help me cover this place in paint? So as this place started to grow, I knew I had to start getting some of the local talent, some of my favorites. And luckily, Ten Hundred is a buddy, and he decided to come in here and paint. And that just made more people want to come in here and paint. He's an extremely talented dude. Yeah, and we appreciate having him in here. Pretty cool, right? Yeah, it's one of those dream locations that you see on movies or you see on the internet, and you're like, that looks like a really cool warehouse with tons of great artists in it. I wish Seattle had one of those. Well, now it does. Boom. So since this mural was so short notice, I didn't really put any planning into it, and I literally just started freehanding what I was going to paint. Even as I was using the sidewalk chalk to sketch my idea up on the wall, I still didn't really know what I was going to do. And it was just sort of like a free-flowing concept. I find that using sidewalk chalk is a great way to kind of sketch out your idea. It's nice because you can wash it off after the fact. As this piece went along, I was kind of just making decisions on the fly. It turned into this dude driving a go-kart. I've never painted a go-kart before, but go-karts are awesome. Most of my murals are super meticulously planned out. I'll sit down and make a very detailed sketch, and then I'll take that sketch into the computer, and I'll color it in the computer, and I'll have this roadmap of exactly what the mural is going to look like. I'll even superimpose it onto the wall so I can kind of see it in its natural environment. But it was really kind of liberating and fun to just go for it on this one. You know, I didn't have any kind of plan or any kind of preconceived notions or any clients to please. It was just really therapeutic. Like, just do what you want to do. No rules. It's Dozer's Warehouse. It's a mural playground. So that was super rad. On this mural, I'm using acrylic paint and house paint and just basically whatever supplies I have laying around my garage. Sometimes I'll use spray paint on my really big murals, but at this point in my art career, I feel a little bit more comfortable with the brush in my hand than with the can in my hand. But I am going to Kansas City in about a week to go paint a 125-foot wall, and I'm pretty much gonna have to use mostly spray paint for that because it's just so massive. It really depends on the mural, and I just feel like if it works, whatever supplies you want to use, go ahead and use them. People like my murals, and I use brush paint, so there you have it. Actually, some of this paint on this wall is leftover pool paint from that David Bowie swimming pool mural that I painted, and that's kind of cool. I made a video about that. It's on my YouTube channel. You should go watch it. So as this piece keeps going along, I'm just adding more and more little details that weren't part of my original sketch, and since I really didn't have a super strong concept to begin with, it's like, yeah, let's just keep tricking this out till I feel happy with it. I'm adding these clouds to make more of a fun border, and later on, I add some drips to kind of continue it down to the bottom. So Dozer's Warehouse is gonna be open to the public. It's actually gonna be an art show opening at the gallery, and the warehouse will be open, but let me just have Dozer tell you about it. This is Dozer's Warehouse. It's opening September 8th. Gallery and live music bar with ID. It's gonna be a gallery show with over 30-some artists. Everyone who contributed in the warehouse will be participating in the gallery event in the space next door, with the warehouse being a final piece to the whole show. It's crazy because it started as just a small little gathering of artists who came from Paradiso, a bunch of out-of-towners like Yes from New York, Clowns from LA, Rock from Baltimore, world-famous train rider Jabber, Arrow from Hawaii, and we got really talented female artists in here such as Angel 179, Mari Shibuya, Katie Kerche, Piosa Marie, K-Sara is in here also, and many more that are coming in as the place keeps building. So it kind of started out as something small and slowly just kind of grew, and now it's something really special, I think. Well, stuff like this is important because it kind of bridges the gap. This is not just one type of art. This is all kinds of art, and this kind of putting egos aside and letting big names shine with little names and kind of bringing everyone together in a common space and showing what you can do when everyone works together and how beautiful it can be. How beautiful it can be indeed. Huge shout out to Dozer for inviting me to come paint and this Beacon Hill Arts Committee. What an awesome thing that you're allowing all these awesome artists to do. It's totally rad. Make sure you guys come out on September 8th for the grand opening to see my mural, to see all the other pieces, just to just bathe yourself in the splendor of all this amazing artwork. It will be a true treat. It's in Seattle. Come through. If you guys have any questions about how I create my murals, leave them down in the comments. I am always down to answer any questions that I can and leave a like and definitely subscribe to my YouTube channel for more videos about art and adventures. Thanks. See you later.