Brush lettering on a wall
So, we decided that it was time for my son to get a new bed and since he shares a room with his sister, it would make sense to get bunk beds and give them more space. Well, that lead to... since we're taking everything out of the room lets shampoo the carpet... okay, let's paint too,. okay, so, I let my inner crafty side peek it's little head. I wanted to give them a cool room, that was neither girly or too boyish. I picked a "kingdom" theme. I had it all worked out in my head. Painted the walls a lime green with a dark blue ceiling called "majestic". I painted clouds and stars and actually bought commercial grade glow in the dark paint to paint the stars and outline the clouds. I put a castle mural on the wall and made the castle windows glow so at night it looks like the castle lights are still on. My son has dragon's and knights on his side and my daughter has fairies on hers. They have matching comforter sets his with dragons and hers with fairies.
THEN, I decided I wanted to write a bible verse on the wall... wasn't as easy as I thought it was going to be.
I can't get the letters to come out dark or neat. My walls aren't really textured, just a kind of orange peel thing... with semi gloss paint. Tried sanding it down to get a smooth surface, repainting that section with a flat paint, nothing. I've bought alphabet stamps, stencils, used different brands of acrylic paint, tried it free hand with different brushes, nothing. Can't figure it out and it's driving me MAD!
Any brush lettering folks out there who can tell me where I goofed would be greatly appreciated.