Geometric Mural Made With Cricut Maker and Spray Paint

Want to expand your graphic arts beyond paper and computer. Why not try your hands at a mural. Who knows, maybe someone will commission you for your first one. I do alot of free hand murals and thought an all stencil mural would be a nice change of pace.

☆ Cricut Machine
☆ Computer
☆ Transparencies
☆ Spray Paint
☆ Tape
☆ Ladder or Scaffolding
☆ Gloves
☆ Respirator

I do my vector-based art in Adobe Illustrator. For your pattern to repeat, draw your pattern to the size of the transparency you'll be using. Keep in mind that if you're using spray paint, you don't want to have your image go to the edge of your transparency. You have to allow for over-spray. If your rolling paint you don't have to worry about that. Save your image as an SVG file. You can also save it as a tiff or jpg and allow cricut design space to vector it. But you'll lose some quality doing it this way.

Next you'll want to load your SVG file into cricut design space. Weld your layers and select the cut option. Load your transparency and wait for your design to be cut out.

This is a fairly straight forward step.

☆If you are using spray paint you want it to lay as flat as possible. You can use a light spray glue, tape or design a frame to go around your stencil. Using a stick helps keep intricate parts of your stencil flat as you spray.

☆ Spray away from your cut lines to keep overspray under the stencil to a minimum. Take off stencil and line one end up with part of your last sprayed image and repeat the process.