Muralist · Raleigh–Durham, NC
Skylar Bahrs paints custom murals by hand — nurseries, kids' rooms, offices, storefronts, and the occasional surfboard. No decals, no projections, no two walls alike.
Four of them
Clouds & Moon · start to finish
Every mural starts as a chalk line on a bare wall. This one ended as a sky.
About
Skylar Bahrs is a mural artist based in the Triangle. She's been painting walls since 2019 — starting with a twenty-foot octopus and never really scaling back.
Most of her work lives in rooms people spend a lot of time in: a nursery ceiling, a kid's bedroom, a lobby that needed something other than beige. She paints animals and landscapes with real weight to them, in color loud enough to hold a whole room.
Every mural is drawn and painted on site, straight onto the wall. If you can describe it, she can sketch it — and if you can't, that's usually where the good ones start.
Typically 2–6 weeks, start to finish
A visit or a few photos with measurements. Light, texture, and traffic all change what will work there.
A color sketch to scale, plus a flat price covering paint, prep, and days on site. Two rounds of changes included.
Walls get primed, the drawing goes up in chalk, then color — usually two to five days, working around your schedule.
A protective clear coat so it survives kids and cleaning. Then the signature goes in the bottom corner.
Commission a mural
Room, rough size, and what you have in mind — even if "what you have in mind" is just a color and a feeling. I'll come back with a sketch and a price.