Doityourself: Giraffe wall art

Hello everyone!
Today I would like to show how I made my masterpiece. I have never been a good painter, but this project of mine showed me that I am not too bad at it. White walls are so boring and depressive so to make them more attractive we use some paintings, photos in frames or maybe wall clocks and so on. So this time I decided to try myself in painting an African inspired Giraffe wall art. Of course the painting took me about 5-6 days and the easiest way was to buy a wall sticker but.. let me show you how much my art costs me and how much a wall sticker of the same size costs so you can see the difference.

P.S. Sorry for the bad quality of images and for my bad english:) Hope you will enjoy it.

So, yes, I copied in some way the image from internet, because it is really impossible for me to draw it without any help or hint.

The sticker of the same dimensions, if I would buy it on internet, would cost me about 49.99$ or 36.50€.
For my painting I spent 1.99€ for Tempera paint (or poster paint) brown colour, and 0.99€ for paint brush.

So the difference between costs is huge, of course it might not be as perfect as it is on the image that's on your right, but it is my masterpiece and it almost cost me nothing to make it.

Now I will show you step by step the whole process.

So again supplies are: a pencil, tempera paint (or poster paint) of brown (chocolate) colour and a paint brush.

The reason I chose this paint is because it has a nice matte finish, it is non toxic and you can wash it away easily from your wall using a soapy water and a sponge, so if you are tired of your painting you can remove it easily.

So the first and the hardest part is drawing the contour (silhouette) of your wall art. When it's all done you can start paint it.

Because the poster paint is initially designed for paper and posters, one layer isn't enough for a wall, so I used 2 layers of paint for each detail of my painting.