We made a painting this weekend! We’ve been wanting a large scale art-piece to go up on our dining room wall. We had a large framed photograph up but, at 26″ x 32″, it didn’t have the right scale for the room. We wanted to go big. Like, 60″ x 36″ big. Now the last time either of us did any painting was in art school. Back then we didn’t enjoy it much, mostly because neither of us were particularly good at it. Undeterred, we gave it a try. Things tend to be more enjoyable when you do it yourself and it turned out to be a lot of fun.
Inspired by color field paintings, I made a sketch in Illustrator and we tried different color combinations til we were happy. Then it was off to the local art store to buy the acrylic paint, the canvas and some 1/4″ painters tape. A few hours later, we were done and it was up on the wall. We’re enjoying it. It’s the bold, large-scale signature piece the room has been waiting for. We call the piece………“Untitled.”
Update: To complete the dining area, we painted a high chair red to add another splash of color to the room. View the post “Red High Chair” for the full room view. Check out the DIY/Make section for more project ideas.
Also, congrats to everyone who has been DIYing there own versions of the Weekend Art Project. You can see a few examples our reader’s handiwork here.
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I love this RT @breathtakingph: http://twitpic.com/1blb6c – Painting done and up on dining room wall. 60″ x 36″.
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Made a painting for the first time in, like, ten years: http://gu.nu/Umzb And it's really large: 60" by 36"
I love it! So bright and it cheers up the whole room!
Awesome! Love the peek at your creation process, too.
wow amazing! gotta steal this idea! :D
Feel free! Send a pic, if you do.
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oh my God.. this is so cool!
thanks for sharing…
I’m going to have to try this soon! I just moved into a new apartment, and that would look phenomenal over the couch. Maybe I’ll do a set of three equal sized ones.
I’m curious — you didn’t have any bleeding underneath your tape?
no bleeding underneath the tape at all. we were surprised too!
a set of three sounds fantastic! send us an image once it’s done, we would love to see it.
have fun painting!
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I am absolutely loving this and now think one of my living room walls is calling out for one!
Esta muy lindo y se ve sencillo de realizar, intentare hacer uno para mi oficina.
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Thanks for the great little feature Laura! x
Wow, this is so cool! I just clicked over from How About Orange. The colors really caught my eye! I would love to link to this if you didn’t mind.
Hi Rachel. For sure, we would love for you to link it. cheers. xo
My husband and I did this over the weekend! It was a lot of fun and we love seeing it on our wall. I’ve blogged about it at http://hanamik.blogspot.com/2010/07/weekend-art-project.html
wow, that looks fantastic! congratulations on your new art piece!! glad you had as much fun as we did. yay! thanks for sharing.
this is perfect!! I can’t wait to do this for the huge b;ank spot above my bed!!! it looks awesome! great color choices!
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Hello! If you don’t mind I’ll post your idea at my blog :) if you don’t want to please leave a comment and I’ll erase it.
xoxo
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We just did this. Check out our version here. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Good news, Steph. I couldn’t access that page, though. Do you have it up on a public site? Would love to see what you came up with.
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this is so awesome!!
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