Started Mural

[PythonWallace]

It looks like the rain here is starting to cause the paint and primer to leak and drip. I have a feeling that after a little while the mural will be ruined. I'm not working on it until it rains a few more times to see what happens, but it looks like I'm going to have to paint it back to a solid wall

[JLC]

It looks like the rain here is starting to cause the paint and primer to leak and drip. I have a feeling that after a little while the mural will be ruined. I'm not working on it until it rains a few more times to see what happens, but it looks like I'm going to have to paint it back to a solid wall

That would be SO sad!! Especially after so many hours and such hope of a beautiful wall to look at. Isn't there any sort of sealant you could spray or paint over the top of it to protect it from the weather? (Although I understand it may be a bit late for that for this attempt ...but maybe you could try to get it done between bad weather rounds and then seal it? )

[PythonWallace]

I was planning on sealing it with polyurathane, and I might try to seal it now, and again after I finish. I just don't know if it will do any good. I washed the wall, used 3 coats of Killz ext. primer, a coat of ext paint and all ext. spray paint, but the wall still seems to ooze paint. I can't explain it, but I think that because the wall is underground that it's just so saturated that if can't be painted. I hope it doesn't get worse so I can finish. I've put in so much time and money, and it was going really good. I'm to the point where I can envision the final product, but I might never make it there.

[JLC]

I didn't think of that. Might be that the moisture is coming through the porous cement from the ground on the other side. Dunno what sealing the top layer of cement will do for that. Maybe ask the guys at Home Depot, or some cement contractor type dude if they have any recommendations for salvaging the project?

[Alice]

That is absolutely amazing! I hope you can save it.


I have no creative talent at all so to see someone actually paint with a spray can a mural that looks so beautiful fills me with awe.

[recycling goddess]

i'd go online and find someone heavy into graffiti - they could tell you what to do.