Painting A Logo Onto A Wall

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Currently doing some home improvements (new kitchen, windows, doors, living room floor, re-skimming etc), eventually we'll be bricking up the conservatory and having it as an office for me....

On one of the walls I want to paint a large logo, but want it to look clean and professional. Drawing by hand may lead to errors/not looking right. So I was thinking of trying to print the logo onto thick card, and cut out the lines as a "template", fix in front of a lamp and try to project it onto the wall. From that I can draw the main lines ready for taping.....

Does this sound like the best way, or are the better methods?
 
Know anyone with a projector you can borrow?

Display the logo straight from a pc/laptop onto the wall and get painting without having to mark up the wall with guide lines.
 
Projectors are the way to go I think.

Years ago though, I painted up several band backdrops on blackout material and I did it by creating a full scale copy in photoshop. I made up a A4 size marque in PS and copied the entire image section by section into several new files, printed them out on my A4 printer and then stuck them together, cut them out, attached them to the material and then traced round the templates.

Long winded but easy to do with PS, a printer and a bit of time - best and quickest option would be using a projector.
 
Yeah, I think we have a projector at work I can borrow (totally forgot until I posted)....

Last night all I had in my head was the overhead projectors we would have at school - do they even still exist? :lol:
 
There's a custom sign making business on every street corner nowadays.

Everyone's got some poncy 'home is where the pooch lives' or some other crap on their walls created by some fly by night Facebook business.

Surely that's the 'best' way to achieve this.
 
Phil V said:
There's a custom sign making business on every street corner nowadays.

Everyone's got some poncy 'home is where the pooch lives' or some other crap on their walls created by some fly by night Facebook business.

Surely that's the 'best' way to achieve this.
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Phil V said:
There's a custom sign making business on every street corner nowadays.

Everyone's got some poncy 'home is where the pooch lives' or some other crap on their walls created by some fly by night Facebook business.

Surely that's the 'best' way to achieve this.
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EVERYONE surely not in your house phil :exit:
 
Phil V said:
There's a custom sign making business on every street corner nowadays.

Everyone's got some poncy 'home is where the pooch lives' or some other crap on their walls created by some fly by night Facebook business.

Surely that's the 'best' way to achieve this.
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haha, god those quotes look s***. Usually some b0llocks over the head borad of the bed about following dreams or some s***. You know, because if you put it on a wall, read it enough and possibly say it enough, it'll come true. :rolleyes:

But seriously, I don't want to stick anything to the walls. So it looks like a projection of the image, trace it, and then paint is the way to go.
 
RandomlySet said:
haha, god those quotes look s***. Usually some b0llocks over the head borad of the bed about following dreams or some s***. You know, because if you put it on a wall, read it enough and possibly say it enough, it'll come true. :rolleyes:

But seriously, I don't want to stick anything to the walls. So it looks like a projection of the image, trace it, and then paint is the way to go.
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Surely a laser cut logo will look better than anything you can paint?
 
Phil V said:
Surely a laser cut logo will look better than anything you can paint?
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You're possibly right tbh. But for the price of a tin of paint, I may give it a go first. Alternatively, get a laser cut template and paint.
 
I'd go for a custom neon sign, it would be so much cooler. Or an aluminium print to hang, very thin and still printed.
 
How big will the logo be?
My suggestion whould be to have the design cut on to self adhesive vinyl which you would then stick to the wall as a template.
You can then spray or brush paint the logo on and pull the vinyl off. Hey presto nice clean lines.
Obviously thos method will only work on a smooth wall.
 
stupar said:
How big will the logo be?
My suggestion whould be to have the design cut on to self adhesive vinyl which you would then stick to the wall as a template.
You can then spray or brush paint the logo on and pull the vinyl off. Hey presto nice clean lines.
Obviously thos method will only work on a smooth wall.
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it'll probably be about 4ft tall (so the aspect may make it about 5ft wide)....

I don't want anything stuck on the wall, but have considered getting a vinyl cut simply to use as a "stencil" and then peel off.

Basically, the logo will be a social media icon. So it's just the outline that needs to be accurate as curved on all edges. The inner contents are all perfectly straight lines which I can measure and draw using a long straight edge.
 
I would enquire about getting a vinyl stencil made.
The only tricky part would be getting the vinyl on to the wall without creasing/tearing it etc
 
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