Add budget friendly and beautiful art to your home by making it yourself!
Happy Saturday! I’ve got another DIY tutorial for you and this week it’s a really simple way of making yourself some abstract canvas art. If I hadn’t kept changing my mind on colours this would have taken no time at all, and although the wooden frame looks fancy, it really was so simple. If I’m honest I’m still a little on the fence about the colours, it’s definitely out of my comfort zone (aka green and monochrome), but I really wanted to bring some warmth to our family bathroom, and have been thinking for some time that I’d like to bring earthy tones into the adjoining guest room. Eventually we’ll replace the grey tiles with some white textured ones and have a shower fitted in here so this wall will be all tiled. For now, these canvases make what was a very boring plain wall into a bit of feature. Keep reading to find out what I used and for the step by step tutorial…
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Using a pencil, draw out your design lightly on your canvases. I decided to draw two wavy lines across the middle. Position your canvases together so that your design continues across them both.
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Mix up some plaster of paris or use finishing plaster to add some texture to the lower part of the canvas below the lower wavy line.
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Paint your canvas above the top wavy line. I decided to paint this in a slightly off white colour.
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I really liked how it looked with the plaster itself but to add some warmth to the room I chose to paint the textured part of the canvas in a terracotta colour.
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Then, I painted the gap between the two colours white, and once dry used my monotwin pin to draw wiggly line roughly through the centre. I made this bolder in certain parts, and then added several thin lines above, on top and below.
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Next I found some pine lengths in the same width as the depth of my canvas and cut these to size. I cut them with 45 degree angles at each end.
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After labelling each piece, I then stained them using a mixture of water and acrylic paint, and left them to dry.
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Once dry, I used No More Nails to stick the wood to the canvas and the corners to each other.
