Free Art and Craft Project Instructions for Easy Painting on Canvas 

This is an art project anyone can do.  Pull out some canvas and any paint and paint brushes, turn on your imagination and lets get started.

Everyone has a painting in them.  Maybe not in the traditional sense like Picasso or Matisse.  Most people won’t even attempt to paint on a stretched canvas.  This is a project anyone can do.  Be very original and feel very good about the results.  

You may have a curved wall that you cannot figure out how or what to hang on it.  This is a perfect inexpensive solution with big buck presence!  Or you may just have a need to hang a great piece of art someplace in you home.  

If you have any canvas in your fabric remnants or have an old canvas car or boat cover you are going to throw away, that is perfect for your original art!  If you don’t have any on hand, you only need to buy a yard at a fabric or art store. Online try Dick Blick Art Materials

For inspiration you may have a magazine picture of something abstract like another painting, fabric print, colors on a plate or piece of pottery. Check out some of the prints and art for inspiration at BestArt.com.

When selecting your colors, you may want to include those in your color scheme and a new accent color or two.

Supplies you need:

• Canvas fabric

• Acrylic paint in several colors (craft paint or artists paint will do)

• Styrofoam left over from stucco work or an old cooler

• Or a cardboard box

• Scissors

• Paint brushes

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Step 1:

Cut canvas in shape or shapes to your liking and sizes that will work where you are going to hang them.  If the edges fray or ravel a little, that is part of the originality of the piece.

The sample project has three pieces for interest and were cut to fit for where they are hanging…..The big void above the cabinets in the kitchen with a 10 foot ceiling.  

Step 2

Start painting!  If you have several pieces they do not have to match in any way or they can.  You don’t have to cover the whole canvas with paint.  It’s OK if you do.

These have lots of canvas still showing as the white space. Notice each has a border of sorts and there are triangles painted in each of the three pieces.  The colors are all in the color scheme of the home.

When you are happy with what you have.  Let dry.  

Step 3.

Cut out a block or blocks of the Styrofoam. Glue to the back of the canvas.

Position the blocks so they hold the painting out from the wall anywhere from a half inch to an inch.  This gives the painting depth on the wall.  

Step 4.  

Hang your art!  The sample is small and light enough it was hung by sticking a couple one and a half inch long straight pins in each through the canvas, styrofoam backing and into the dry wall.

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Find your supplies for this craft project at joann.com 

and at Dick Blick Art Materials

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