I love summer
days, the breeze, the trips to the beach or rivers, white clouds and blue sky, weekends with
family, but right now it is our rainy season in Panama, and it’s been raining
even with strong winds off late.
But today it was beautiful; a nice sunny day that gave me the idea to do a small
painting that would remind me of a sunny day even under a heavy rain.
This is what came out, a summer day at the beach back in 1950.
I am no professional
painter at all and would not even know how to do a painting, but nowadays with
all the resources the internet offer; there are awesome tutorials that can
teach beginners how to paint a background.
So I ran a search and found one tutorial at a great site named
eHow. And watching the tutorial video you can find here and trying it myself,
my beach background turned out quiet nice I would say (considering I don't know how to paint):
Once my
background was finished, I did continue then with my favorite technique the
decoupage, played around with the images I had in mind and voilá! a scene was created.
The materials
I used for this project are:
Materials
- Artist board or canvas (size will depend on your project, mine was 16x22 cm)
- Acrylic Paints & Brushes
- Vintage images & papers in different sizes
- Scissors
- ModPodge
The step by step is:
1. Paint the beach
background using the acrylic colors and brushes of your preference and the
tutorial found here. Let it dry.
2. Print the
images you want to use and seal them with protective/sealer spray or pva glue diluted
with water. Let the prints dry
accordingly to the manufacturer’s recommendation.
3. Cut the
images and glue them on the canvas with ModPodge, eliminate the possible
bubbles of air with care, not to affect the canvas fabric. You may want to frame it if you wish.
A beautiful beach day to enjoy at home, but I´m actually feel like going to the beach, don’t you?
Thank you very much, hope you guys like this project.
Every week we have the honor and pleasure to participate and share our projects in awesome parties, please visit them and see what talented artists and crafters are creating. They are not in a particular order, just from the oldest I found till the newest:
Thank you,
Every week we have the honor and pleasure to participate and share our projects in awesome parties, please visit them and see what talented artists and crafters are creating. They are not in a particular order, just from the oldest I found till the newest:
Monday:
Amaze
me Monday @ Dittle Dattle
Tuesday:
Take
the Time to Challenge @ Raising 4 Princesses
Turning the Daunting into the Do-Able @ Project Queen
Turning the Daunting into the Do-Able @ Project Queen
Take a
look Tuesday @ SugarBee
crafts
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Show
off your stuff party @ Fireflies and Jellybeans
Friday:
Saturday:
Saturday
Seven Party @ Positively
Splendid
Strut Your Stuff Saturday @ Six Sisters' Stuff
Saturday Showcase @ Bowdabra Blog
Strut Your Stuff Saturday @ Six Sisters' Stuff
Saturday Showcase @ Bowdabra Blog
Sunday:
Thank you,
Have a great week!
Erika
This is great! Wonderful job :)
ReplyDeleteCute! FYI My newbie party is for any theme any thing goes. I notice you have it as vintage style. Thanks for joining me.
ReplyDeleteWow! well done! Hopping over from the newbie party XO
ReplyDeleteThis is really cool. I love it. Great job. Visiting from newbie party.
ReplyDeleteAnne
So cute. I'm a beach girl, and would love something like this for our patio!
ReplyDeleteFound you via Domestically Speaking linky party and I'm so glad I did! This is a great project; I'm going to stick around to check out some of your others!
ReplyDeleteYou are so talented. I love how you put the different mediums together. Brilliant! Even more so knowing you went to ehow to look up how to do the beach painting. Seriously inspiring.
ReplyDeleteLiz
Well how cute is that?! I love it!
ReplyDeleteTania
You did a beautiful job and your background looks like a professional artist's work.
ReplyDeleteErika, I can't believe you don't know how to paint! Your painting turned out great! I guess I better go check out that tutorial. Thanks so much sharing.
ReplyDeleteWow - that's impressive! Love you image of summer fun!
ReplyDeleteJan
So clever and so, so vintagey fun! Sigh. Now I have another project to add to my list of things that may never get done.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a cool idea, you did a great job! Perfect summer image! thanks for linking up to Vintage Inspiration!
ReplyDeleteI absolute love your collage art. I am actually working on a collage piece for the kitchen now. I am newest follower!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! I never thought to paint the background and then add the other picture pieces! I love it!
ReplyDelete--Katie
Ah, what a fun, fun projects!! Collages are the best!
ReplyDeleteThat is so fun! Love the beachy vintage feel!
ReplyDeleteWow.. This is so cool! The background you painted is very neat.. Thanks for linking up at friday fun party.
ReplyDeleteThis is very very cool! Thank you for the how to!!
ReplyDeleteLove this idea! I featured you today! I hope you will stop by and link up again this week!
ReplyDeleteKim@madeinaday
http://madeinaday.com
Love it! So vintage! :) Thanks for sharing on "Strut Your Stuff Saturday!" We hope to see you this friday! -The Sisters
ReplyDeleteWow! This turned out great! So vintage; I love it!
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