Painting Salvage

Well… if you read my previous post you would know that I was SO excited about the way this project was going… then I added the text and it went all down hill. I will spare you of the details, but lets just say this have NOT been my week. I used a oil-based pen to apply the text. I didn’t trust myself with a paint brush AT ALL, so I went with the pen… part of me wishes I would have risked the paint brush. Anyways. Here’s what it looked like. The text is just to shiny, and so it stands out to much. You can’t really tell in this picture because I moved the light so it wouldn’t be shiny. lol. The text also bothers me because I think the handwriting is bad, but it should be, because if it was perfect it wouldn’t fit with what it was saying. I just have always not liked my handwriting so that’s all that is about. SO, I took a trip to blick and the scrapbooking store and bought some stuff to hopefully help me salvage it. So I added these cute little brown squares, some blue and green buttons and some flowers. I def think it helps. The big flower in the middle is the biggest part, that empty space was really bothering me so that makes it look so much better. I like it better now, but part of me wishes I would have never added the text… but hey, there’s a reason I’m in school right?

 

Your thoughts? Am I crazy and it really looks fine? Is it still horrible? (hehe) I wanna hear it all! <3 .

I’m on a painting kick…

I’m not really on a kick… I LOVE to paint, I just finally have a bunch of assignments that give me the excuse to paint! Which makes me very happy! My next project is well underway. I’m going home this weekend (YAY!) so I had to get a head-start on it since I wont be able to work on it this weekend. I’m really loving the way this one is turning out as well So here’s a sneak peak into the first 3-4 steps.

Again, the quality is kind of paint because the lighting sucks in my apartment, but you get the gist The next step is to add the text which will read “to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting” by e.e. cummings. I haven’t totally figured out how I’m going to apply this yet… whether I’m going to tough it out with a paint brush, use a paint marker or something else… We shall see.

 

I hope you all have fantastic weekends! I can’t wait to be home and relax (and see some pretty fantastic people too!)