Since I'm currently not working (its the middle of the school year and so hard to get a decent job), I picked up a new hobby. And by picked up, I mean tried because I was desperately bored.
I bought two white canvases months ago from Amazon and never used them. They sat in our "junk closet" for forever so thought I'd try to bring them some life. I knew I wanted to use color and just get the hang of drawing again so I turned to none other than Pinterest for some ideas. After finding some awesome pictures of giraffes, I decided to take on the challenge and ended up with this:
I think it turned out pretty darn good. Although, it doesn't match any of my decor so I'm not exactly sure where I'm going to hang it lol. I was so inspired by the colors (and my favorite color is pink) so I made sure it was nice and bright. It was more about layering the colors more than anything. But overall, the technique is really easy. I used acrylic paint on a standard woven canvas. It took about 2 hours to complete.
The next morning I jumped on the second canvas, sticking to an animal theme apparently, and painted Mr. Elephant (not the title, just for name's sake).
He was actually going to be black and white water color, but as you can see, that didn't happen. In my house, everything is pretty much, grey, white, black, or cream. I like to keep it neutral and add pops of color here and there, but it looks like my paintings are screaming for some attention. He was a little more of a challenge because I was playing with water color for the first half of it. And the fact that I messed up his trunk just a tad. But overall, I'm happy with how they turned out. I haven't bought any more canvas yet, but I'm really into this for now.
Ryan even said he'd pay $10 for the pair...I told him $100 and he politely declined. Guess I'm no "artist" yet, but maybe soon!
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