I'm cheap. And I wanted some art for our bedside tables - something in a tall frame. I found some white frames at Michaels for ~$4 each the other day, and I had been wanting to do something with paint chips...so, on my shopping trip with April, I made her my accomplice, and stuffed her purse full of paint swatches for my attempt at some art, and for a mobile for their nursery. I got busy during naptime, and here is what I came up with...I am digging it so much that I would love to do a really large scale one. So, if you see some crazy lady in the paint aisle at Home Depot, squirreling lots of samples into a big bag, it is probably me.
I used a 1" circle cutter and punched the circles out of Behr paint swatches. Then, I used Elmer's glue and glued all the chips down, starting at the bottom of the page, overlapping as I went. As you can see, I wasn't exact, I just eyeballed it, so it is not perfectly straight...but I am okay with that ;) The beauty of all things imperfect....
love the texture...
Now, for the keeping it real shot...I REALLY need to find a good looking alarm clock.
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I like it! And we have the same books in our collections. :)
ReplyDeleteI didn't know you could make such beautiful art by just using wood chips. You really are great at taking little boring things and making them into creative art.
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