A couple more pictures now of the completely finished circus playroom trompe l’oeil mural wall. This detail shows the completed ticket box, with some simple trompe l’oeil effects that finish off one of the better playroom decorating ideas I’ve had the pleasure to develop, with a trompe l’oeil mural emerging from and in turn completing the faux finishes in the room.

The letters are shadowed to look carved out and the faux wood grain is a lighter version of the real wood floor and trim in the room. Check out the lions and ringmaster now entertaining the crows on the left and the tickets left on top of the box; in hindsight I wish I’d designed in a little brass padlock holding the box shut and added a long secondary shadow of the tent pole going the other way.