Wall Art

I’m posting some close ups of some of the things the boys and I have made for the walls.
This one is “Cat Monster” by my youngest. It’s about 8 x 10 size and is done using leftover wall paint and sharpie. He drew the cat monster over and over on paper until he drew one he liked. Then I traced it on to the canvas.

Tiny butterfly in a 5 x 7 box. The photo doesn’t look as pretty as it does in person. It’s just a butterfly handcut out of scrapbook paper and stuck in some Martha Stewart box that I found for $3.

“The cake is a lie” based on a game called “Portal” and done for the computer room. It’s fairly good sized and 30 x 30. It’s big. Those are my hand prints on it.
This one is 16x 20. It’s done using flocked scrapbook paper and wall paint. I cut the bird out, painted some left over paint on canvas, painted lines on, and then glued the birds on it. I saw this somewhere online and I liked it so I recreated it. I do that often in our house.

Edited: March 29th, 2008

WWbatmanD?

The husband saw a shirt he wanted but it was $40. All it said was “WW(batman symbol)D? He was going to buy it and I said “I can make that.”

All I did was make a design in a computer program. I found clipart images of the batman symbol and plugged them in to my design. I then printed them out on paper and placed some wax paper over the top. I traced the design on to the wax paper, cut out the design, and then ironed the wax paper over the sweater I bought him. Then you painted in the design, let it dry, and peel off the wax paper.

Edited: March 29th, 2008

Views of the Living Room

The table is actually my old dinning room table. I bought new legs for $7 each at Lowes and a $3 can of teal spray paint. I painted the legs, attached them to the table and then spray painted the table skirt so it would match. Then I painted the table top and added in the flowers with more paint and a sharpie. The whole thing is polyurethaned within an inch of it’s life. I wanted a Japanese dinning table, but the one we bought was too small for us fat Americans. As an added bonus, it has a built in leaf that folds out so I can expand the table in to a giant square.

I even sewed the pillows for around it. /gasp. I suck at sewing too.

All the plants are planted in containers that were already around the house. Next up? A red glass ice bucket I have that I never use.

We’re not savages and Sad Psycho

Those are things the husband bought for my birthday. I know that most people wouldn’t hang them up, but I love them. We’re buying several little canvases for the savages so I can rearrange them as I want and then two big canvases for Psycho. Psycho will be on one and the blood trail will trail on to the other. I plain on putting lyrics parts from a song husband and I like (it’s called “I can’t decide” by the Scissor Sisters) on the blood trail canvas. I can totally see how in my head how these will end up and I can’t wait to actually do them. We’re putting them on canvases so I can take them with us when we move. yay

Edited: March 27th, 2008

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Edited: March 27th, 2008