how to paint a circle on the wall?

Re: how to paint a circle on the wall?

• mrsjohn

  October 2008

  Not really, I am not good at those things either. 
  

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• Newspaper Articles member

  October 2008

  You might want to try the D & R board.  Many of those ladies are pretty crafty.  There's also a paint bio floating around somewhere.  I can't remember if there's circle ideas or not, but it's worth a try.
  

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• liz_e34

  October 2008

  I think the contact paper is a good idea. One thing I see on home shows all the time is that they paint the tape/wall line (or in this case contact paper) with a clear glaze and let that dry before painting. Then there is no bleeding behind the tape.
  

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• lovenote member

  October 2008

  https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060804095352AAMdwEL

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• ginifred

  October 2008

  Take a small nail (picture hanging nail) and put it most of the way into the wall.  Take some string - nylon or whatever won't stretch - and make a loop at both ends.  Put one loop on the nail, and in the other loop, a pencil, pen, charcoal (sp?) pencil, whatever.  Keeping the string taught, you can draw a circle around the nail.  Don't pull too hard or the nail will start to move in the sheet rock.  You can do this with multiple lengths of string.

   The only drawback to this is when you are done, you will have little holes you need to fill and smooth before painting.  But this seems like the easiest approach to me.

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• Mrs.PeachyKeen

  October 2008

  Are you looking for something like this?

   

  https://tinyurl.com/5dless

   

  https://tinyurl.com/54wr63
  

  

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• ginifred

  October 2008

  Ooh, using a coffee can or tuna can, etc, is a good idea.  No holes.

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• lovebook

  October 2008

  I haven't done circles before but I have created geometric stencils out of posterboard before.  The problem with them is they get very wilty due to the wet paint.  using actual stencil material (it's usually clear or pink) would be best and then a good quality exacto knife is imperative to get really clean lines for the circles.  You could even trace a plate (or something similar) directly with the exacto knife.

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• SarahScott08

  October 2008

  I would use a stencil. Cardboard or tagboard has always worked well for me.

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• TTCgradstud

  October 2008

  Thankd for the advice.  I had figured out the push-pin, string trick, but was hoping for something more stencil-like since we aren't that good at painting a clean edge. 

  newspaper- thanks for the board suggestion, I think I found a new favorite place to be- and to have artistic-skill envy! 

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• Doodlebugz

  October 2008

  Going in an opposite direction: you could purchase wall decals instead of painting... here are some examples:

  https://tinyurl.com/69wf5a

  https://tinyurl.com/57235n

  https://tinyurl.com/5j8ltr

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• Mrs.Kent

  October 2008

  We did multi-color and multi-sized circles on DS's wall.  We went to Michaels and bought stencil material and, with a compass, created our own stencils. We were very happy with the results.

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