Update-I originally posted this a few weeks ago but I'm re-posting it today for the
Young House Love/
Bower Power Pinterest Challenge.
A few weeks ago I decided to 'pinter' some art work. I made this picture one night while my husband was watching some sort of sport downstairs. He never even saw me in action.
I got the idea for this from
here.
Here is where I pinned it. Essentially you just paint or draw branches with brown marker or paint and then paint circles on the branches as leaves. I used some old acrylic paint I had lying around.
I was not 100% happy with this when I finished. Once I put it in the frame, I liked it better (fun fact-you can make most bad art look decent by framing it). I like how it looks from far away but not so much from up close. Fortunately, I usually only look at it from far away. So for now, it's a keeper. I can always re-frame something else when I get sick of it.
The second thing I made didn't come from a specific pin. I had seen a lot of people use paint sample chips (cards from Lowe's, Home Depot) to make
art work. So I thought I'd give it a try. After some trial and error I went with these hearts in varying shades of blue which I taped onto a piece of white paper. Then I framed them in this dollar store frame.
So if I end up hating it in a few weeks there will be no big monetary loss. (Free paint chips+ $1 frame=$1).
Here's how it looks all together.
Have you pintered any art for your house?
UPDATE 2-So I'm actually still liking my tree painting. It's growing on me, so I think it will stay up there for awhile. Now I need to re-pinter some art for the basement since my first attempt was a failure. You can check that one out
here.
