A Fun Project

Sandy from Ukiah here again. I am excited to share with you this project I made for my grandson's birthday.  I am not doing a video today, I really would rather do a video but with my project it would have been to hard (for me) to do a video of it.  So I have taken pictures of each step.

I started with a plain white 12x24 canvas.  I forgot to take a picture of it before I started painting, so I went back down to the store and took one there.  

The next step wasn't too bad,  all I had to do was paint the canvas.  I used Artist's Loft Acrylic paint, I first use Unbleached Titanium, but I felt it was to light of a color, so I painted over it Naples Yellow, I think it looks better. 

So while the paint is drying I cut out the guitar in black 631 Vinyl.  Was a little nervous about doing the vinyl, but it turned out pretty good.  The weeding took me about an hour to do.

The next step was a little stressful.  I had to measure where I was going to put the guitar, the sun and the water... My sweet husband was good to help me with the measurements.  I was a bit upset because I didn't make swirls for the water.  

I used Artist's Loft paint Cerulean Blue and Titanium White for the sun and the water.  I mixed the Cerulean Blue and Titanium White for the sun.  And just used the Cerulean Blue for the water.

So now the part I was dreading, "did I measure it right for the sun to be where I wanted it."

Yes, it went on perfectly... I don't know why the color looks so different in each picture.  I suppose it is the lighting when I take the pictures.

So here is the finished project.  

I decided to add a quote that he mentioned in his graduation speech.  I hope he likes it.

I am pretty happy with how it turned out.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by, I hope you enjoyed my project this month.

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And thank you again for having me as one of your Designers Sheila.

I Went To A Painting Party And It Was So Much Fun

Well I hope you are having a great day. We went to Party Art in Helena, AL 205-263-2984 and had a great time painting. Since my project dealt with Christmas I thought I would share with you. I am so happy on how it turned out I am removing the picture over my mantle and replacing it with this one, My daughter Jennifer and granddaughter Sydney went also and we had so much fun.

This is my nativity seen. I white washed the background, and am getting ready to paint baby Jesus.

The star is awesome, you place glitter on it when the star is still wet.

This is another view a little farther away.

I thought I would take a few photos arount the room for you to see what everyone is doing.

Abby said what the outside design of this is but I can't remember.

This is Mrs. Nelson and her name will go in the center and go on her front door.

Here is mine again and it is coming along.

This is Abby placing the puff lettering on my nativity.

This is Jennifer and Lee, my little Sydney photo bombed them.

Lee is working on her door hanger, It turned out great. It is presents with her last name in the tag.

This is another mother and daughter team along with Abby. Both of the girls are 12 so they did need a little assistance.

Her is Sydney working on putting glitter on the dots. Jen helped by getting her dots wet so she can sprinkle her glitter.

Sydney is like me more glitter is better.

Jenny & Sydney still working on the glitter. her owl will be so cute.

She is painting a snowman.

 Jenny and I did the Nativity scene and sat across from each other.

Lee's finished door hanger.

Sydney with her owl.

 This is my daughter Jennifer, Sydney and myself with our completed projects. Just click on the photo if you want to make it larger.

This is Jennifer's scene.

And the front of it.

This is the other 12 year olds project.

The front door welcomes you.

This is a shot of the room.  I hope you enjoyed today's post. I sure had fun making it and hope you give this a try in the future. Thanks for your encouragement. Your comments continue to inspire me.