11 household items you can use in your art practice!
We bet you didn’t know you could use these items in your art practice!! Well maybe you did. because we know how creative you lot are, but if you didn’t. you’re in for a treat. Check out these mind blowing hacks we discovered.
1. SPONGES
Sponges are amazing for your art practice. They come in a variety of different sizes and shapes, perfect for covering large areas, creating interesting textures and blending.
2. MOPS
If you’re looking for an usual way of creating pattern and texture then a mop head is a great place to start. This type of mop head is also great for letting those frustrations out of the canvas! We slapped it around the surface and created these really unique texture strokes. We also think a big wide sponge mop head would be great for creating big expressive strokes over a large canvas!
3. DUST PAN AND BRUSH
This dust pan and brush combo was our favourite household hack!! The pan doubled as a handled palette and worked as a large flat palette knife, almost! The brush created beautiful big sweeping textured strokes.
4. SQUEEGEE
I bet you guys knew about this one, another great hack for moving paint around your work surface. We also used this to create large paint splatters as well. Lots of fun getting messy with the squeegee and different paint colours!!
5. BUBBLE WRAP
We have a bit of bubble wrap here at Art Shed that we always try to reduce, reuse and recycle – so why not use it to create art as well!? We found this awesome large bubble wrap which created a really cool pattern!
6. CLING WRAP
Cling wrap is another great way to create interesting and unusual texture in your art practice. We applied it across wet paint and then repeated to press the paint soaked cling wrap across the canvas. It looked really cool!! This technique would be great for creating visual interest in landscape paintings!
7. KITCHEN WIPES
Kitchen wipes are always great to have on hand if you need to quickly wipe up spills or clean up a cross colour contaminated item! We used a straw to drag across the canvas and to create texture – but it was the attached to the pump to go back into our paint bottle!! So we need to clean that up ASAP! We then used the kitchen wipe to apply the paint and to blend it in.
8. HAIRDRYER
Do we need to explain this one? Great for quickly drying areas you want to continue working on and even moving paint around in different directions!
9. SPRAY BOTTLE
A spray bottle is always great to have on hand if you like a little bit of drip action in your artworks. It can also help you keep areas of the painting wet so you can keep working the acrylic paint and blending if you like to use the wet on wet techniques in your artist practice.
10. GARDEN RAKE?!
We’re throwing everything at it now. This little garden rake was perfect for building up interesting scratchy strokes and creating unusual texture in heavy bodied acrylic.
11. STRAW
A straw can be used for many things in your artist practice. For this example we dragged the paint across the surface of the canvas and created some cool blended strokes. You can also use (clean!) straws to blow the paint around, especially good for pouring painters!!
The products we used:
- Mont Marte Premium Canvas Double Thick 24″ x 48″ – 60.9 x 121.8cm
- Mont Marte Signature Acrylic Paint Pump Bottle 2L – Titanium White
- Mont Marte Signature Paint Brush Set – Artist Brushes In Easel Wallet 17pc
- Mont Marte Acrylic Pouring Paint 240ml Bottle – Turquoise
- Mont Marte Acrylic Pouring Paint 240ml Bottle – Cerulean Blue
- Mont Marte Acrylic Pouring Paint 240ml Bottle – Mint Green
- Mont Marte Acrylic Pouring Paint 240ml Bottle – Phthalo Turquoise
- Boom Gel Stain 250ml – Pearlescent Teal
- Matisse Fluid Acrylic 135ml S2 – Southern Ocean Blue
We hope you enjoyed this blog just as much as we enjoyed creating it!! Don’t forget to always have fun, play and experiment with different techniques. As always, stay creative!
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Easy DIY Acrylic Painting Projects You Can Use To Decorate Your Home This Festive Season
Updated: November 12, 2020 4:19 PM IST
| Edited by Anjali Thakur
The festive season is here which calls for beautiful home décors and creating good vibes around us. Markets have already started flooding with various decorations and ornaments etc however, a lot of us are continuing social distancing, so why not take on some DIY decor projects?
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Whether you’re a kid or an adult, a beginner or a professional, acrylic painting is something that all of us can do. It’s fun, easy, and economical. Even if you think your artistic skills are not so enhanced you can still try some of these and surprise yourself. Acrylics blend smoothly, making the end result look appealing, you can choose from the variety of brands that are available for this project.
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Here’s a list of easy-peasy DIY Acrylic Painting projects that you can start with and get your hands all dipped with colors shared by Faber Castell.
1. Mandala
Mandala is like rangoli, just on a canvas. All you need is a paper, geometric compass, ruler, pencil, markers, and acrylic colors. It’s a piece of artwork made up of geometric shapes and designs meant to symbolize the universe. Often, Mandalas are used by many people as an art therapy tool as it has benefits like reducing anxiety, depression, relaxing the overworked minds, increasing creativity and self-awareness, stabilizing blood pressure, and having the same effect as that of meditation.
Start by making a small circle using a compass and drawing consecutively bigger circles around the first. Divide it horizontally, vertically, and further into more parts. Now the fun begins, draw whatever shape you want in all the wedges starting from the centre in symmetry going outwards till you complete the circle, and Voila! Your mandala is ready. Fill it with colors to make it look more beautiful. Inspiration for a mandala is all around you!
2. Canvas Painting
If you’re thinking of decorating your room or studio with some artwork, all you need is a blank canvas and some acrylic colors. You can create a lot of easy, abstract, and fun artwork with your imagination.
If you’re a beginner, you can go for painting initials, favorite quotes, abstract, splashing paint, galaxy painting or painting using scotch tape. For the festive season, you can try painting artworks related to Lord Ganesha, Goddess Lakshmi, Lord Durga, or just symbols like lights and bold colors.
3. Glass Bottle Painting
You can give your home a pop of color in the easiest way by reusing old glass bottles, decorating, and painting them with acrylic colors. Be it fine wine bottles, milkshake bottles, or beer bottles; with just a pinch of imagination and creativity, you can turn them into great home decor items. You can use them to hold flowers. Paint mason jars the same way and use them for holding pens, paintbrushes, and utensils. Decorate with stones, mirrors, jute rope, and ribbons, or just fairy lights. You can even add an exotic touch with Henna-inspired designs.
4. Stone Painting
Stones can be used for a lot of DIYs – for planters, gardens, aquariums, and even stone jewelry. But creating art on stones is probably the best one. It is not much different than painting paper, canvas, or walls. The supplies are the same—just the surface is different (eco-friendly too)—but that’s what can be challenging.
If you’re thinking about what you can use them for, make them into magnets, decorate your garden, create seasonal decorations, make paperweights or gifts or give paperweights as gifts, write inspirational messages on them, etc.
5. Matki Painting
Matkis are usually found in all of our households or even roadside easily and they are inexpensive. To turn the boring matki into a decorative piece, consider painting it in different colors and adding patterns with acrylic colors. If you’re feeling extra creative, add glitter, rhinestones, stickers, ribbons, or peacock feathers.
6. Elephant Garland
Garlands are a huge part of Indian festivities. From beads to flowers to pom poms, a lot of variety is available in the market. Elephants are considered sacred animals in Hindus and give a cozy, traditional atmosphere. Hence, elephant-shaped garlands are a good option for decorations.
All you need is scrapbook paper, string, and some acrylic color. Cut out elephant shapes, paint, punch holes and link them all together with the string. You can even hang several rows of elephants vertically to decorate a wall or create a photo backdrop.
7. Diya Painting
Festivities, especially Diwali are incomplete without the illumination of loads and loads of diyas and candles around the house. Paint them and you can create beautiful corners or line them along the wall.
8. Greeting Cards
In this time of the pandemic, when many of us can’t visit our loved ones, DIY greeting cards are a great way to give a personalized touch and are a beautiful expression of love. You can create handmade greeting cards and send them to your friends and family. It feels special to send and receive them.
9. CD Painting
CDs can become great decorative pieces if we’re creative enough to use them as canvases and give them a transformation. We can find CDs lying around in our homes which we don’t use anymore and just have to upcycle them.
For this project, you’re going to need a few of your old CDs, a bottle of acrylic paint, a pencil, a paintbrush, and a thermacol cutter. Even if you don’t own all of these, they can be found for cheap at your local arts and crafts store. Just remove the shiny film with the cutter and you’re good to paint. Loads of ideas are available on the internet for this. You can hang them in a string or put it up on the wall.
10. Fluid Art
Fluid Art is the newest trend these days, which is a fun way to create abstract art. The best part about this is that even if everyone’s doing it, no two paintings can ever turn out to be the same. It’s an amazing way to enjoy painting without the usual traditional brushes. There are endless creative possibilities thanks to different ways to combine acrylic paints and there’s something so satisfying about watching it spill across a surface.
In this, Acrylic Paint is mixed with pouring medium and then poured onto a variety of surfaces like canvases, wood, mirrors, ceramic tiles, and more in different ways. Just pour the paint, disperse it with slow movement, and create your final design. You should try it this festive season!
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