Thursday, April 10, 2008
Dianne Smith’s own wall art
Decorating the walls of your apartment can be an expensive task. For a cheaper alternative to real art, use blank canvases to make your own. You’ll spend fewer than $20 and end up with a perfect trio of pictures to hang on your wall.
What you’ll need:
• A set of three blank canvases
• Paints, any type
• Three bunches of fake flowers
• Elmer’s glue or hot glue and a hot glue gun
• Pushpins for hanging
Buy a set of three blank canvases from Michaels, 3106 Iowa St., or Hobby Lobby, 1801 W. 23rd St. Lay out the canvases on newspaper to avoid any accidents while painting.
Paint the canvases whatever color you like. I chose to paint each canvas a solid color. You could also paint stripes, polka dots or patterns and coordinate them with your flower design.
Pull the individual flowers off the stems. You may want to cut off the short stems that remain on each flower. It will make them easier to glue on the canvas.
Once the canvases are dry, arrange the flowers on them to get an idea of what your art will look like. You can make a pattern, shape or whatever looks good to you. I made a different amoeba-like shape for each canvas.
Glue the flowers to the canvases. Hot glue will be easier to use because it sets faster, but Elmer’s glue works fine, too. You’ll just have to be careful not to bump the flowers while they’re drying.
Put two pushpins directly into the wall, spread apart about the inside width of your canvas. Then hang each canvas on top of the pushpins. It’s easiest to measure where you’ll need the pushpins, then mark those spots on the wall using a ruler and pencil.
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