Friday, June 26, 2009

Painting burlap

We took the kidlets to a museum in Provo and stopped off at DI on the way home.  
I decided to join the burlap bandwagon and make something that I could put into the green frame. 
 I drew a primitive bird and joe traced it onto the computer and printed up some vinyl that I could use for a stencil. 
I've seen people use stencils on burlap before, but I always assumed it wouldn't work very well because it seems like the paint would bleed. I put the bird sticker on and just dabbed the paint on with a sponge brush.
  I love how it turned out!! And no bleeding!! I stuck another sticker on to paint the wing.
  What I love about primitive artwork is that you don't have to be an amazing artist to be able to make some really cute pieces. It's so basic. I think I could even lose the little legs of this bird next time. 
Thumbs up to burlap! I will definitely be painting it again sometime!  While I was letting the fabric dry I worked on the frame. I painted brown over top of the green and I figured I would just sand it down with steel wool so the green would show thru. 
 YIKES!! Too similar to the picture and not so cute!! I had a feeling while I was painting the brown that I should really be going black. 
Black is much better! I used an upside down laundry basket as my painting surface.  While I waited for the frame to dry....for the second time, I looked around the house for a piece of cardboard that I could use to back the burlap. Thanks Kichler box! Perfect! I cut it to match the frame using a razor knife and used spray adhesive to stick the burlap to the brown side so color from the box wouldn't show thru.  I stuck it on the shelf in the kitchen along with the little towel box I found and some ceramics for color.
 Have a wonderful weekend!! Get up tomorrow and go searching those yard sales!! Find something you can share with us on Creative Cats this Tuesday!!

4 comments:

  1. Man! How do you craft so much?! My husband and son are leaving to go camping tonight, and so it's just me and my 8 mo. old daughter, Maybe I'll get something done.
    P.S. I got my PRIZE! Thanks so much again for the giveaway!

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  2. Hi again. So I took this design, and another of yours and made DESIGN PLATES. ThanX for the inspiration! Check them out here:

    http://justbitzofglitz.blogspot.com/

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  3. Oh...I like it! Looks really cute on the shelf with your wonderful doo-dads!
    Sandra

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  4. Clicked over from "that's so cuegly".... excited to browse through the rest of your blog!

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