Exploring My Artistic Side!

I've always loved HGTV and have loved doing projects, but over the past couple of months it has increased! I'm not sure when I'll reach a point that I won't want to do a project!

Recently, I've really enjoyed watching Color Splash on HGTV and the more I watch the more inspired I've been to step out and try it myself! If you ask Garrett he will tell you that everything I've tried hasn't helped my design tick. I'll briefly explain...

1) We re-did Nancy and Gary's deck. Garrett had hopes that this would subdue my need to paint but obviously it didn't!

2) We've been helping at a 20-30s ministry here and I got to rearrange furniture and think of ideas to make a space a more inviting environment. That didn't do it either...

3) The space needed art but had $0 for a budget! Now I was getting somewhere! I went on a mission to find wood pallets in trash piles for a free frame! Garrett helped me!! (He's a great husband to put up with my crazy ideas!) Then I got out an old sheet, cut it, stapled it down to the frame we built, got out my paints, and went to town!!! It was so fun!

Here is the outcome of my painted sheet! I think it looks brighter in person but that's just me being a bit of a perfectionist.

4) I decided the frame was so heavy using wood pallets and I knew I'd run out of sheets pretty fast, so I needed a new plan! Plan B! I got basic wood frames from Hobby Lobby. They sell them for a couple of dollars and you put the frame together in the size you want! Then I got a drop cloth canvas from Lowe's for $11, cut it to size, and wrapped my canvas! I'll be able to paint several large paintings with it! The trick with the drop cloth is using a paste of some sort to make the painting area smooth.

I've been wanting to do a painting to go in the living room so I looked up on youtube "how to paint clouds." I would watch the video, pause, and paint! Here it is in process...

Finished product!

5) So after a day of the tree/cloud picture hanging in the living room I decided it didn't match. I pulled back out my art supplies, looked up some more youtube videos, and got to painting. This painting was done on an old flat canvas I have had under my bed in Conway for...well a long time. I took two light weight boards and stapled them to the top and bottom to keep it from warping and it makes it easy to hang.

After a little frustration with this painting I took it outside and tossed some yellow paint on it and decided it would work! It does the job to add color in the living room and it matches!

I'm not sure what I'll do next. I have a huge canvas waiting for some inspiration! I'll let you know when I paint it, if I had to guess it won't be too long from now!