This is the awesome painting that I made over the past 48 hours. It was a lot of fun, and I really like the results. I just used stuff I had lying around so my cost for this project was $3 for the Vinyl Letters.
Materials:
Canvas - I used a 12x16
Acrylic paint
Paint brush
Vinyl Letters
Palette or paper plate
Water
First I made an underpainting that I could put the letters on top of. I decided I wanted an ombre effect, so I painted a gradation from white to yellow to pink. I love pink! It was really quick and I just applied lines of paint to my canvas. (It was an old one that already had an unfinished painting on it, so some of that peaks through)
After the underpainting dried, about 30 minutes, I applied my letters. I did measure out margins, but I decided not to use a ruler to line up the letters because I have a decent eye for placement and because I am OK with it looking a little homemade or ragged.
The blue "T" is one I made from masking tape since I only got four "E's." Next step is painting over the letters and the underpainting. I wanted to make it black to make it high contrast, and because the phrase is a song lyric from "Everlasting Light" by the
Black Keys.
This is the beginning of painting over the underpainting. I was tempted to leave it this way because it looks pretty awesome just like that. But I kept going and ended up with a black canvas. It was at this point I painted the edges of the canvas so that it looks nice if I decide not to frame it.
The next step of this is super fun! Splatter-painting! I put a bit of paint on my palette and then dipped my brush in water then in the paint so that I had a liquid-ey thinner paint that would splatter when I flicked the brush. I did the part in layers, color by color, allowing the paint to dry in between.
This is what it looked like before I peeled off the letters. And now, the big reveal!
All finished! And I think it came out totally awesome! It is definitely going in our new house.
I had tons a fun doing this project. The letters were easy to work with and I love any opportunity to make a mess.
