Painted Canvas

I’ve used canvases in a couple of rooms in our house. They are so cheap and the skies the limit with what you can do with them. I watch a lot of HGTV and have noticed designers either painting a block of color on a wall or using painted canvases as a block of color on a wall (which adds a little more texture in a 3-D fashion).

In our master bedroom, our accent colors are red and dark brown, so I painted three canvases these colors. I went around the house and took close up photos of items I thought were interesting. I then changed them all to sepia, which made them all have brown tones and go well in our room. I printed the photos in a 5×7 size and then used spray adhesive to glue them on the canvases, creating instant art. The cost for each piece was $3 and a little bit of time.

In our guest bedroom, I chose to paint canvases again. I decided on some more interesting sizes and painted them with the colors placed throughout that room. I left them as just plain painted canvases. I’m not sure how I like them yet. I feel that something should be added to them (they look too “blah”). Thoughts?

Painted canvases serve as very reasonably priced (one-of-a-kind) artwork for your walls. The cost is minimal and it’s something that most people don’t have on their walls (making a nice conversation piece as people ask how you came up with that idea).