My Latest Art Project!

I am super excited to share this art project with you!  A couple weeks ago, Roo-Roo got some awesome Chinese Character stencils and I started thinking about doing the most awesome art project painting with them.  I chose my favourite: LOVE and got to work!  I wish I had pics to show the process, but I don't, so use your imagination :)

First, I needed some sort of cardboard that would be heavy enough to make my own stencil out of.  I chose a cereal box, because it was handy.  Next, I traced the characters and made my very own stencil.  Then I decided that I wanted to use my acrylic paints and covered my whole canvas with this pink/read colour.  {The colour is a bit different than I wanted, but that's because in the middle of my mixing colours, I realised that I really needed to purchase the actual colour I wanted it to be.  Which, I only had this one canvas left.  So, by the time I purchased the colour I wanted that was on sale and then the other paint had already dried, it kind of turned a bit more on the red side.  But, whatever!  I still think it looks AWESOME}  After that dried, I mixed my colour for the character part, stuck the stencil on the canvas and painted over the stencil, being very careful to not allow the paint to spread by really holding down the stencil.  And, here is my finished product!

I am quite happy with the final product!  I love it so much, that I already have it hanging on the wall!

~Trista