So how do you turn a creepy paint-by-numbers cat painting into something wall worthy? A few months ago I saw this project by A Beautiful Mess (oh by the way I love this blog and have done a few projects inspired by theirs) and have kept it in the back of my mind. So when I was at Michael’s Craft Store on Sunday looking for projects with my friend, I just had to pick up this bizarre cat painting.
Well, first off, be aware that there’s no way that your own painting will EVER look like the masterpiece on the package. Look how adorable the original piece is. Now look how terrifying my work in progress is:
Now cry, because you will have nightmares about that blank eye ghost cat stare. Paint a little more and it’s still scary.
But have no fear, because creepycat is going to be covered up by paint. I used some vinyl letters from the craft store in Helvetica because although Comic Sans was on sale, it would have been a crime to put that on the wall.
Like Essie over at A Beautiful Mess, I chose a song lyric. It may look strange, but that says “mushaboom.” If that means nothing to you, check out this song by Feist. Fun fact: almost used this as a senior quote in my high school yearbook. Second fun fact: the chorus is my alarm song, yet somehow I don’t completely hate it.
(Nice picture, right? Let’s be generous and call it “artistic”)
So anyways, stick on those vinyl letters nice and good and then cover the whole thing with several coats of paint. I did 4. Then carefully pull off the letters and you are left with a muuuch more wall-worthy piece of art than creepycat’s dead stare. There’s a little bit of bleeding because the painting was pretty textured; however, it has that nice artistically marred quality about it. And I can’t wait to get it into a frame and up on the wall. Yep, it’s wall-worthy.
love, ashley
The Drunk Squash
WHAT!?!? AWESOME!!!
Extrememly artistic and I do love it! Although I’ll admit I’ve never heard the song. But what in the heck do you have against Comic Sans?? HA!
Haha it’s just one of those fonts…
This DYI would have come in handy when I painted over the scary bunny wall mural! Very cool!
Bahahaha yes I forgot about the bunny wall!
I love this SP!! You are so creative it amazes me
I remember in elementary school art class (70′s… soooo long ago!) they introduces “Pop Art” which was a new-fangled, post-hippie movement in art. The idea was to create stuff that was pretty much the polar opposite of the what all those established masters had done… stuff that I guess “popped out” at you.
…Well you got it!
BTB: great song too.
Ah 70s art class sounds awesome
I wonder if nana has any of your art packed away in a box!
I just knew Pop would love your art based on the choice of lyric. Seems right up his alley too. And for some reason, I simply cannot get it out of my head now … suppose I’d better download the song from iTunes. And you never know about Nana, she has been known to keep some obscure stuff of ours!
Ahh it’s definitely one of those songs!!