Hey y’all!

Today I am going to show you my secret on how I painted my Fall canvas above my mantel.   Painting a canvas is so easy and can be a lot of fun.  You don’t have to be an artist, if you like to color here is a DIY for you! 🙂

I will shared my Fall canvas with you in my Fall home tour.  If you missed that tour you can go check that out {{HERE}}.

ONE:  Canvas

Purchasing a canvas to the size you need.  I took an old canvas and spray painted it white.  You can tell the texture from the old painting, but it won’t matter once I start painting.

TWO:  Find, cut & outline

I went to my go to place and typed in the search bar:  pumpkin coloring page, I printed out the ones I wanted.  Since I couldn’t print out a larger pumpkin, I took a place mat pumpkin from Dollar Tree and used that.

I cut all the pictures out and placed on the canvas the way I wanted.

Once I got the pumpkins the way I wanted I started tracing around each picture with a pencil.

After I outlined the pictures I mimicked the inner patterns.

THREE:  Paint

Now it is time to paint each pumpkin.  I went from larger to smaller.

How I highlight and shade my items:  I use darker color to shade and lighter color to highlight.  I added the darker/lighter color to an area then with a clean dry brush kept sweeping the color until I got it the shade I wanted.

Not sure if that’s how to do it properly but it works for me. 🙂

Free handed the wording “Fall is calling”.  I don’t have the cutest handwriting! 🙁

After I painted the words I took all the colors and started smearing it in the background.  This helped to hide the texture of the old painting.

That’s it!  1-2-3……it’s really as easy as coloring in a book.  If you can trace and paint in the lines you can create a pretty canvas!  You don’t have to be an artist.

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Stay strong and stay blessed!

XO  Terrie