Arty Farty and feeling Inspired!

Trying to think of new creative things to entertain my girl is fun but sometimes hard work!!

Edyth loves painting so I thought we could take on a project for our living room wall. I had an IKEA canvas up for years, which I had bought from a charity shop to fill the gap and I think it is the most boring canvas EVER!!

So we decided to 'up-cycle' it rather than just give it back to charity. Firstly, we gave it a base coat of white paint.... this process is super messy!!! (so heaps of fun!!)

What I was left with was a blank quite 'drippy' mess... which made me think we could add drippy colour and make it look really nice. I did some searching on the web and came across an artist called Holton Rower . His YouTube video made me want to get our paint on! Watch Holton create a masterpiece! However, as I want this to look really nice (and didn't want to waste loads of paint if it was going to be a flop) we did a test run today on smaller canvases. It's fair to say the girls totally loved it and wanted to keep added more paint... advice is to know when to get them to stop. We used 'normal' kids paint mixed with a little water and we used pebbles we found on the beach for our paint to work its way around.

We went for the rainbow colour theme and tried to stick to it.... We just added blobs of paint on top of each other and let the paint run..... this was incredibly messy (which all adds to the fun). We then tilted the canvas to get full coverage and then to top it all off we went for a splatter effect. This is the finished product, which I must say I am chuffed with and I am really excited to get started on my big canvas!!!

My Mam and myself both think the girls art is up there with the best of them... it may take several weeks for the paint to dry (also not sure what effect it will be once dried) but even if it turns out rubbish when it's dry it was worth it for the fun we had!

Get down your nearest craft shop, pick up the paints and canvas' and have fun!!! Post some photos if you do try it!!

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