New Floral Painting for the Powder Room
Last week, I shared with you all our powder room bath makeover, which was such a fun project my husband and I recently did together. The only missing piece was artwork for the big blank white wall, and this week, I tackled that, too!
It was just the pop of color this space needed, and the added bonus was that I had such a great time painting this!
I must admit, I was a little intimidated by this huge 36×48 canvas at first, like I shared with those of you who are on Instagram, but my husband reminded me that this is not actually the largest painting I’ve tackled! (Remember Lola’s was mural here?)
I guess I was so anxious to get started that I forgot to take a pic of the paints I used, but they are just the basic acrylic craft paints like I’ve used in the past in the 2 oz bottles.
Since I’m just an amateur artist having fun, I usually need an inspiration piece of some kind to get me started, so I used this one which I found on Pinterest from here.
While I don’t expect any awards for my painting skills anytime soon, it’s just satisfying to create yet another piece of the puzzle that makes our home. And painting is so therapeutic!
When I posted this on my Instagram stories, I added a poll to ask if you would feel totally intimidated or totally exhilarated with a blank canvas like this in front of you. And I was surprised to find that the results were almost 50/50! This is the fourth painting I’ve done for our house the in past two years (not counting the mural) and I can’t wait to try more! Who else is inspired to try one??
If you’d like to see more of my other paintings, click on the links below…
October 19, 2017 @ 8:32 am
This is fantastic. I knew that you would do a great job and I’m glad that you decided to paint this rather than buy one.
October 19, 2017 @ 10:44 am
Thanks for always cheering me on! 🙂
October 19, 2017 @ 9:07 am
Amazing! As usual. Ha! I’m totally inspired. Picking up paints on my next Hobby Lobby run.
October 19, 2017 @ 10:44 am
Woo hoo! Go for it!
October 19, 2017 @ 11:40 am
It’s beautiful. I would not call yourself an amateur!! Lovely and well done.
October 19, 2017 @ 1:12 pm
That’s very sweet! I appreciate that 🙂
October 21, 2017 @ 8:24 am
You did a great job!!
October 27, 2017 @ 3:23 pm
This is absolutely beautiful and I love seeing your insta-stories about it! What’s even more special is that in the future, your kids will be able to have pieces of your art-work…my grandmother painted some and it’s so dear to me to have pieces that she gave me hanging in my home now!
xoxo, SS
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