Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Abstract Fam Pic - 4.0
My latest birds portrait for the cutest family of 6 ever. I'm totally loving the chocolate brown color.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Revisit: Abstract Family Portrait
Remember these cuties? Well, they're back! Heather is now making a set for herself. They are gonna be blue and white (go Cougars!) and she's gonna put 3 birds on hers. Aww!
Well, as I mentioned in the previous post, we did an auction at church as a fundraiser. Well, I took my birds to show what I could do, and I sold 4 sets for $40 each. I know that's not a huge price, but when you look at the cost of materials and the fact that all the proceeds are going to support the youth, I was pretty proud that I sold any, let alone 4 of them. Good gracious, what fun! Here's set 1 of 4. I'll post pics of the others as they are completed.
Well, as I mentioned in the previous post, we did an auction at church as a fundraiser. Well, I took my birds to show what I could do, and I sold 4 sets for $40 each. I know that's not a huge price, but when you look at the cost of materials and the fact that all the proceeds are going to support the youth, I was pretty proud that I sold any, let alone 4 of them. Good gracious, what fun! Here's set 1 of 4. I'll post pics of the others as they are completed.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Abstract Family Portrait
Wanna check out the original? Head over here.
Time Needed: 2-3 hours
Level of difficulty: intermediate
Materials needed: 2 colors of paint, 2 blank canvasses (your choice of size), paintbrushes
Directions: Choose the color you want the background to be and paint away. The more coats you use, the longer it'll take to dry. You can go to some place like Home Depot and get a cool color sample so you don't have to buy a whole huge bucket and those are less than $3. Once your canvasses are dry, they'll look a little something like this:
Then, and this is the hard part, draw a branch. Make it as scraggly as you want, but make sure that you put a lot of branches on. Follow your inner Bob Ross and find yourself a happy little branch. Look online at branches, look outside at branches, whatever. It's scarier to start than it actually is once you get started. This is obviously in the other color, by the way. Keep painting until your branch looks amazing. Finished branch by me and by my friend Monica (in which picture her hand makes its blog debut):
Then paint your birds. Not sure what kind of bird to do or how exactly one works? Grab that computer and look up bird silhouettes. From here, you can freehand one or print one and trace it. Whatever works for you. Put on one bird for every member of your family. Right now, it's just the hubs and myself, so we have only two birds. Monica, however, has four birds on her canvas because she has the cutest little boys running around her house.
And there you go! Hang them on the wall, and feel awesome about the fact that you painted on canvas and that it looks incredible.
Time Needed: 2-3 hours
Level of difficulty: intermediate
Materials needed: 2 colors of paint, 2 blank canvasses (your choice of size), paintbrushes
Directions: Choose the color you want the background to be and paint away. The more coats you use, the longer it'll take to dry. You can go to some place like Home Depot and get a cool color sample so you don't have to buy a whole huge bucket and those are less than $3. Once your canvasses are dry, they'll look a little something like this:
Then, and this is the hard part, draw a branch. Make it as scraggly as you want, but make sure that you put a lot of branches on. Follow your inner Bob Ross and find yourself a happy little branch. Look online at branches, look outside at branches, whatever. It's scarier to start than it actually is once you get started. This is obviously in the other color, by the way. Keep painting until your branch looks amazing. Finished branch by me and by my friend Monica (in which picture her hand makes its blog debut):
Then paint your birds. Not sure what kind of bird to do or how exactly one works? Grab that computer and look up bird silhouettes. From here, you can freehand one or print one and trace it. Whatever works for you. Put on one bird for every member of your family. Right now, it's just the hubs and myself, so we have only two birds. Monica, however, has four birds on her canvas because she has the cutest little boys running around her house.
And there you go! Hang them on the wall, and feel awesome about the fact that you painted on canvas and that it looks incredible.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Stocking Hanger
Time Needed: 30 minutes
Level of difficulty: easy
Materials needed: 2x4 cut to desired length, paint, paint pen, hooks
Directions: Paint the background and let dry. Then, paint on the words or designs you'd like with your paint pain. Again, let dry. Add the hooks, using as many as you want/need to accommodate all the good little girls and boys in your home. Then, hang on the wall. Nice and easy and very fun. Thanks to Monica for making this for me - what a cutie!
Level of difficulty: easy
Materials needed: 2x4 cut to desired length, paint, paint pen, hooks
Directions: Paint the background and let dry. Then, paint on the words or designs you'd like with your paint pain. Again, let dry. Add the hooks, using as many as you want/need to accommodate all the good little girls and boys in your home. Then, hang on the wall. Nice and easy and very fun. Thanks to Monica for making this for me - what a cutie!
DIY Grippy Gloves
Time Needed: 10 minutes active time, at least 4 hours to dry
Level of difficulty: easy
Materials needed: mittens, puff paint, and patience
Directions: Lay your mittens flat on the table with the fingers facing each other (you'd hate to have to paint on the wrong side of one of the gloves!) Then, get the puff paint ready according to the puff paint directions, and paint the design of your choice on the palms and fingers. Let dry for at least four hours, or however long the puff paint directions dictate. How easy is that?
These ones are for the hubs, and he LOVES them. I wonder why...
Level of difficulty: easy
Materials needed: mittens, puff paint, and patience
Directions: Lay your mittens flat on the table with the fingers facing each other (you'd hate to have to paint on the wrong side of one of the gloves!) Then, get the puff paint ready according to the puff paint directions, and paint the design of your choice on the palms and fingers. Let dry for at least four hours, or however long the puff paint directions dictate. How easy is that?
These ones are for the hubs, and he LOVES them. I wonder why...
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Tiger Toes
Time Needed: 10 minutes
Level of difficulty: easy
Materials needed: base coat, top coat, light colored polish, thin-tipped black polish
Directions: Paint on a base coat and let dry. Then paint on the light color in as many layers as you need to get the desired colors and let dry. Then, paint on squiggly lines with the black polish. Don't try to make them straight or perfect - that's not the point. Once dry, top with the top coat and let dry again. And now you have cute tiger toes. Woo woo!
Level of difficulty: easy
Materials needed: base coat, top coat, light colored polish, thin-tipped black polish
Directions: Paint on a base coat and let dry. Then paint on the light color in as many layers as you need to get the desired colors and let dry. Then, paint on squiggly lines with the black polish. Don't try to make them straight or perfect - that's not the point. Once dry, top with the top coat and let dry again. And now you have cute tiger toes. Woo woo!
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Helpful Hints - Design Transfer
When working with fabric, you're often left trying to transfer a design from paper to the fabric. I haven't tried this idea personally, but one of my coworkers swears by it. What you do is you buy cheap laminating paper at the craft store. You put that in your printer and print your design on it from your computer. Regular ink works just fine. Anyway, then you put your newly printed design face-down on the fabric and you use an iron on a cool setting to transfer the ink to the fabric. Then, sew or paint or whatever on the fabric, and then send it through the wash. Supposedly, the ink comes out in the machine with just regular detergent. Now how's that for an idea!
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Craft Flashback
My parents recently moved, and when they cleaned house, they found this. My Grandma Maurine made this for me when I was born. My grandpa cut the wood for her and she painted the whole thing. What a fun find!
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