Monday, March 21, 2011

bird art

Make your own bird wall art with printed bird templates and a textual collage for the background. This wall art craft project shows you how to create wall decor with the look of pricier designer pieces.
 
Bird Wall Art

Materials:
  • Two Canvases
  • Permanent Marker
  • Printed Birds to trace
  • Scissors
  • Paint, Wallpaper or Vintage pages to create a canvases back ground
  • Glue or Mod Podge
     



Instructions:
It's easy to find images of birds online by doing an image search. Print your images on card stock or mount them on card stock to create a firm template. Cut them out and your ready to go!
Bird Templates 1
Bird Templates 2
To create some fun texture and interest cover your canvas in Scrapbook paper, Paint or Vintage book pages! To adhere any sort of paper mix two parts water to one part school glue or Mod Podge. Paint your paper with your glue mixture and lay smoothly on your canvas. Once the entire canvas is covered let it dry over night before moving onto the next step.
When it's dried completely lay your two canvases next to each other.
Vintage Paper Canvas
Use a pencil to free hand your tree branches. Be sure to continue your branch from one canvas to the next.
Draw Tree Branches
Outline your penciled sketch with your permanent marker.
Outline with permanent marker
 Color in your branches completely.
Color in the Branches
Place your bird images on the branches and trace them with a pencil. Remember you can make a bird face the other way by flipping them over!
Place birds on branches
Color in your birds.
Color in Birds
Now we'll add our details! Draw on leaves and smaller branches and color them in. Lastly you'll want to color it all in one last time to insure a deep dark silhouette and to cover up any uneven marker strokes.
Add details
Hang them side by side and enjoy!
Finished Bird Wall Art
Finished Bird Wall Art

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