Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Autumn Farmland: Really is My Future Backyard


Waiting for those pumpkin lattes to magically appear on my kitchen table in the morning, but, hot chocolate still rocks my boat in the mean time.

And just waiting for the fall leaves to start falling in Hong Kong.......Might be wishing while drinking the wrong beer so this one might take a while. For now I have some lovely scenery painted for my room. If I cannot find some maple leaves I am just going to let the leaves fall with my paint brush.


Enjoy Enjoy, happy fall time everyone!


Monday, October 24, 2011

How to Design a Stencil: College poor-student style

Flying Fish Mural: Cost = $0
How to Design STENCILS: Make Sweet Rad and Handy stencils out of magazines to create DIY art murals. This is an easy step-by-step way to interior design a living room. 

Inspiration
1. Pick out your tracing design. Choose anything from just simple shapes, like bikes, food, buildings, trees, words, wine glasses, men in suits, girls in bikinis, whatever you want. I chose Koi fish because I just went to a park that had huge ponds with Koi fish everywhere and decided to make an art mural. 



Trace or draw the main stencil
2. To make it easy for yourself, take a design from a magazine, or print a shape out and use that as your main stencil. I free-handed three different fish from pictures I took from the pond.


Cut out stencil
3. Pick out whatever color paper you want to use. If you use magazine paper you can take it off the wall easier than newspaper if you use stick glue to apply.
Make different styles


                               
                                 4. Make as many as you want. Stack the paper on top for an easy multiple-at-one-time cuttings of each stencil. I just use a variety of paper that looks cool when turned into a stencil. For the fish