In this post: How to fix everything

The answer is; white spray paint! Okay, maybe that won’t fix everything. It has fixed 27 frames for me in the past. This time, it fixed an art idea that I stole, and a random dust collector nick-knack I got at a thrift store.

More Stolen Art:

I stole another idea from YoungHouseLove. They diy’d a canvas art painting. It turned out pretty amazing looking. To be fair, the author (Sherry) was an art major, and can actually paint. Me = not so artistic.

I was aiming for something with a little more contrast. Luckily, I didn’t even have to be creative enough to just copy Sherry. I found someone else (on Pinterest) who copied Sherry, exactly the way I wanted to. 2nd-degree plagiarism to the rescue.

Off to Michael’s I went. I found three 12×16 canvas panels 50% off for $11.50. I also got four acrylic craft paints for a little less than $3 total.

Then, like YHL and the first copy-cat, I marked vertical lines with a yard stick, and used a 90 degree angle to randomly divide the vertical lines.

And then I mixed some random paint colors, and painted some random sections.

I started this critter right before Christmas. I painted on and off for a few days, and then not at all for about 3 weeks. The picture below shows it 95% done. After that, I painted a few of the blocks with the 2nd floor wall color… and I didn’t really like it much.

I probably spent 10 hours painting that thing. And I didn’t like it. I pulled Michael down to look at it, and he didn’t really like it either. I had the option of painting the whole thing white again and starting over, but at that point I was tired of painting little arrow-box thingies. So I put it outside and spray painted it white, barely. I basically just let over spray drift onto it for a while.

I like this enough to hang it, and so up it went.

Cost:

Dollars: $15

Artistic Ability: 1st grade level

Creative Thought: Pre-K level

Custom Dust Collector

I got this creepy fellow at a thrift store.

Largely because I had a groupon for $20 at that store, and had only found $10 worth of clothing.

As you can see, he was pretty cheap. For $3 you can decorate with two empty beer bottles. Or you can give a creepy owl a spray tan and have this;

I’ll take it. Plus, he would even look cute next to empty Guinness bottles.