How to paint an image on your floor.

This Instructable will show you how to paint a mural on your floor. Obviously you would not want to do this if you are renting etc. My situation is I needed a new floor in my kitchen because the original linoleum was mighty wore out and beat down, and I did NOT have the money to put down a new floor. I did however have some leftover paints.

Step 1 First you need a plan.

You need to think about the shape of your floor and the flow of traffic. You want an image that looks good from as many points as possible.  Not one that looks great from only one angle. think about doorways and things of this nature. My kitchen floor (the room I painted) has 3 doorways and a bit of a funky shape. ...truth be told, for this particular piece I simply free-handed the art. I had an Idea in my head and I just went with it. This works for simple or very abstract images, but be careful if you try to do this with a more literal image or one that is visually complicated. It is best in most cases to have an image on paper to transfer to your floor. pretty much any image will do. print it up on a piece of regular printer paper and then draw a grid on it. (every inch tends to work good in most cases for smaller rooms like my kitchen) .......
for example I'm using a picture of my cat. I did not do the grid as accurate as you will need to do, but you get the idea. This grid is five units by six units, so it would transfer nicely to a floor that is 5'x6' or 10'x12'. that way a one inch square will equal one square foot in the case of the 5'x6' or it will equal two square feet in the 10'x12' room.