SAND ON THE WALL

by Estelle

5 Materials

3 Hours

Easy

You don't always have to paint a wall to look nice.

We had this primer-coated wall just inside the front door - with a little built in bench underneath it. I really wanted it to make an impression when someone enters the door and decided to try something entirely out of the box. AND I did not want to buy anything to do it with, as our home is a 'recycled' home. The only things we ever bought from the start is cement and paint.

This is the front door. That wall is just around the corner to the right.

I took a few plastic tubs and went outside for a stroll. I thought I would have to walk far, but to my amazement there were about 5 different colours of soil/sand on our property.

I filled each tub with another colour of sand. Afterwards I used a fine sieve and sifted each colour separately into it's own tub.

I was left with 5 tubs of very fine sifted sand.

I used a piece of charcoal to roughly draw what I wanted on the wall. Where the 'moon' is, was a round indent in the wall because we used to have a round light there. So I had to work with the circle and decided that a big moon will do the trick.

I then used a smallish paint brush to paint white glue onto each piece I wanted to 'colour'. The tub with the sand and colour of choice was then held directly underneath the glue painted piece and I 'threw' the sand onto the wet glue. Be sure to put something underneath to catch the falling sand. This process can be repeated again and again until you have the desired covering on the wall.

Then I painted the next piece and used another colour sand....until most of the wall was finished. I left some parts open in order to pick up the fallen sand from the plastic. That gave me totally different colours as I did not mix that sand again. I just picked it up from the plastic and threw that onto the wet glue where I wanted it.