This past weekend was prob my last free weekend to do anything fun with school and all :D. I deiced I was going to make the most of it and CRAFT! The first one I wanted to do was this one.
I’ve had several ideas on what I was going to put above my bed but each time I would complete something it would either be too big or too small. I must say I thought this was going to be easy. Just writing words with a paintbrush...WRONG! Well maybe its just me because my hand writing looks like a mans writing but really it was getting just what I wanted the typography to look and wondering if I’m going to be able to get all the words in. I played on some smaller canvases just to play on and realized my handwriting looks worse with a paintbrush.
I’ve had several ideas on what I was going to put above my bed but each time I would complete something it would either be too big or too small. I must say I thought this was going to be easy. Just writing words with a paintbrush...WRONG! Well maybe its just me because my hand writing looks like a mans writing but really it was getting just what I wanted the typography to look and wondering if I’m going to be able to get all the words in. I played on some smaller canvases just to play on and realized my handwriting looks worse with a paintbrush.
So I went to look for words of wisdom on the blog of Alisa Burke to see what she did (her blog). Which I guess this would be a good idea for a tip.... TIP #1: I know this sounds silly but read before you do something. You might think they know how they did it but you don’t. (Unless you do! lol) ANYWAYS! I read that she used shoeshine to write on the canvas. SMART!!!! So I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to do this my mother (the reason I’m so crafty!) suggested q-tips. At first I thought it would be silly but she brought some out to me and I started to play with them and let me tell you it was a lot easier to work with. I tapped three of them together to make the lines thicker.
What I used:
• 24"x30" canvas
• Acrylic paint
• q-tips
• ruler
• straight edge
• pencil
- I started off with painting the whole canvas with white acrylic paint.
- Measured on the sides every 2" (or whatever the size you want) used the straight edge (or ruler) to make very light lines so I didn’t get too crooked.
- I figured that I could get 23 characters on each line. Some of the lines I didn’t finish the words, which is fine.
- I wrote out the alphabet on a piece of paper so I would know how each one to look. I used a mixture of both upper and lower case.Then I started to write on the canvas. :D Also if there is a certain work that means the most or you just happen to have green paint you can make a focal point with one of the words.
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