It’s that time again. It’s time for the Pinterest Challenge. This is a challenge started by Katie Bower (over at Bower Power) that encourages you to stop pinning (on Pinterest) and start doing. Check out my inspiration wall, silver-leafed chalkboard, word art, and closet update from the last year of challenges.
For this challenge, I created my own work of art in the form of an abstract painting. Here’s inspiration I pinned months ago:
I don’t have any other abstract art in the house, but I just found these to be super striking. I started with an old canvas painting (the artist signed ’1993′) from Goodwill and regular acrylic and latex paint. I primed the canvas first.
Next, I painted a fresh coat of white primer over the entire canvas again and let that dry. I mixed a little black paint in with my navy paint to create a midnight blue kind of color. Then I just painted the bottom of the canvas solid and as I moved up left some random, uneven strokes trail into the white area.
So that’s my first abstract painting. At first, I liked Tanya’s (from Dans le Townhouse) better, but mine has grown on me. I really like it. I’m definitely glad I tried it. It’s inspired me to experiment with some other ideas and colors. Have you created your own work of art – abstract or otherwise?
-J
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It makes me think of a skyline!
This is stunning! Love the simplicity and graphicness of it!
Love this! So graphic!
Oh, I disagree! I like YOURS better! I like the peaks and change in height. It looks amazing, especially how you styled the “after” photo! If you don’t mind, I’ll be sharing this on my blog
Aw, sure. You’re too kind. Thanks.
I like where you placed it too with the large stripes on that bench. Perfect little nook!
I love it! It turned out so well…so much better than I would have thought. Looks great! I would LOVE for you to link this up at my Ginger Jamboree Link Party!!
This turned out so great! I’m a big fan of Tanya’s piece too and I think yours turned out just as good. I’m inspired to give it a go myself.
Thanks so much. I really appreciate that from a fan of Tanya’s piece.
It’s great! I’m really inspired by all the abstract art on Pinterest, too! Just waiting until we move into our new house until I try my own.
It looks great! I’ve had some DIY abstract art pinned for a while, but I’m concerned that my perfectionist side would never be happy with it, so I’ve yet to tackle it as a project. Maybe next time the Pinterest challenge rolls around?
Sarah