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Up-cycled Art
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Jennifer Terry- Calm and Collected
(IC: blogger)
I took a dumpster dived painting and turned it into personalized art for my beach-themed bedroom.
So… I’ve had this painting in my attic for a few months.
HGTV Magazine had this idea for taking an ugly old paint-by-numbers painting and turning it into something fresh and different. It was a vertical painting and they turned it horizontally and painted over it. The original painting is a little more abstract now and you really just focus on the colors.
I purchased some removable label sheets and printed the words from the chorus of “Sea of Love” on them. Then I cut out all the words. And laid them out on my painting.
I was very worried about the clouds at the top of the painting. I knew I wanted to paint over everything with crisp white, but I was afraid you wouldn’t be able to make out the letters on the top of the painting against the white. No other color choice seemed any better, so I went ahead with painting over it all.
Actually I quite like the way it turned out. I feel like it was a nice way to bring someone else’s art into my room and still make it my own. What do you think?
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Published April 24th, 2015 10:35 AM
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ETHEL MARY CROSS on Nov 04, 2016Stacy, I am so happy that yo found out the value of this painting, $3,200.00 in the 80's...i wonder how much more value it would have 36 years later....
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