Beautify and Creatify

Since I haven't written posts with DIY projects lately, I thought this week I would write one. Moreover, several weeks ago I finished my wall decor project! So, as you guessed, this post will be about creating yet another beautiful wall art piece for your house. Let's get started! I started off with 4 canvases and just 3 types of acrylic paint: black, white and grey. I wanted this wall art to be classic... in black and white... Thus, i painted all four canvases into black.  For this wall decor I picked picture of tulips as a background: two tulips connected with each others' leaves. Then I added some glowing effect and couple more paint touches. By the way, I was mixing the grey paint with a drop of black to make it darker, or with a drop of white to make it lighter, depending on what I needed. So here are steps 1-2-3 of the process.  Initially, I picked such background as the top of the painting would be empty, so I can write down inspirational quote...

Today I would like to share with you another DIY project that I did recently. I had the left over supplies from the nursery letters project and decided to turn them to some wall art decor using dot painting technique. Let's get started! For this project you need canvases (I had 4 canvases left from the previous project, but you could also use one larger canvas if you wish), acrylic paint and a couple of make up sponges (i got a whole pack of sponges for $1 in Dollar store). Now, let's make our "dot painting tool". Take a pen with a cap, cut a little piece out of your makeup sponge and tuck the sponge piece in the cap of the pen as shown below. That's it! Now you can easily paint with this easy-to-make and cheap dot painting tool. Let's move on to the painting. Put your canvases in desired arrangement and sketch the pattern that you picked. And start dot painting! Just dip your tool lightly in paint and make the dots along the pattern. Once you g...