catching up on my design*sponge posts, i came across this wallpaper mural of these sillouetted birds and got inspired. hey i can do my own! dusting off our old slide projector and jimmy-rigging a few old slides, i found myself projecting and tracing my daughter's original artwork on her wall. in one holiday afternoon, we created some beautiful artwork for her wall. and you can too! here's what we did.
supplies:
pencil
slide projector (or overhead projector w/transparent film)
vellum (transparencies are preferable but this worked, albeit cloudy)
plastic photo slides
scotch tape (painter's tape is another thing we didn't have so i improvised)
don't forget your patience - it's hard to wait until the paint dries! something about paint makes you want to just get in there and go crazy, young or old.
carefully open a plastic photo slide. the negative will just fall out. we used negative's size as a guide and created the artwork on vellum. place artwork in the slide, tape and close. voila! instant slide.
place into slide into slide ring - i think upside down and backwards is the way it goes - but in this case, art is art - whichever way strikes your fancy. project on wall. play with distance to determine the size - the further away, the larger the image. this is where the slide projector was limiting - this was the most i could back up and prop up. i'm assuming an overhead projector might be more handy for large size projects). focus and trace lightly with pencil, denoting colored areas in a paint by number kinda way.
tape off edges of artwork. this was my experiment with scotch tape - held up pretty well but did bleed as anticipated. paint away! i (ahem, i mean we) painted two layers per color and changed them to match her room (these were also the only colors we had in the house - when you want to get it done, you make do, folks!). don't forget to wait until each layer dries. we had to force ourselves to leave the room proving yet another hypothesis - staring at wet paint does not equal dry paint.
wait, paint. wait paint. get into the groove, my friends. you'll have to wait some more. and when you just can't stand it anymore, pull that tape off! scotch tape, as you can see gives you some sloppy edges, but we kinda liked it. i freehanded a thicker border leaving some white "matting" to frame it all, upon final the approval of the artist, of course! all in all, a fun afternoon of creating, painting and waiting with my girl.
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i love it! blue painter's tape is a 3M product. how much do i have you ask? next time call me before you paint anything! i want to see how you did the velum thing and can i borrow your projector?
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