matthew gerdin: DIY

After recently rearranging my house, I found myself with a HUGE empty wall that needed something to fill the void, and without breaking the bank. My solution was simple, creating my own work of art of my living room.

Its SO simple, Here is what you need:

Canvas (however many you would like, I chose 4 small ones) ............. 5 for $20 (Michael's)
Paint (2 or more colors) ......................................................................... $2.94 ea. (Home Depot)
Tape ........................................................................................................ $2.97 (Home Depot)
Brushes ................................................................................................ Found them laying around

1. I began by getting all of my supplies ready. Put out a sheet for the mess, got my paint, tape, and brushes out and ready to go. I put all 4 canvas next to each other like it would be on the wall so the lines stayed consistent.

I went to Home Depot to buy my paint, because you can get sample paints for very inexpensive, and when at the paint department you have a wide variety of colors to choose from.

Tape

Paint Brushes (and bird poop)

2. Step two, begin to tape your geometrical lines. This has no particular flow or design. The lines are random and whichever shape you happen to create is the art about it. If working with multiple canvas, like this, be sure that the canvas stay together to avoid inconsistencies.

3. Now you begin to paint. I started with one color. When painting you have discretion to how much of one color you would like to paint, whether that be half and half with your colors, or like I did, and paint most of the smaller shapes one color (blue) while making the other color be more predominant (green).

Now begin painting the rest of the open shapes the other color.

4. REMOVE THE TAPE! Well wait a minute, let it dry first because you do not want to be removing the tape with the paint is still wet because it WILL leak onto the white lines.