DIY Botanical Wall Art with Spray Paint
Use the DIY Botanical Wall Art with Spray Paint tutorial to help you make amazingly easy botanical art for your home. Fast and fun with leaves & grasses from your own yard.
Servings: 1 set
Cost: $15
Equipment
- none needed
Ingredients
- Nature items- tree leaves, bush stems, grasses, etc.
- Spray paint- colors of your choice (green, pink, cobalt blue)
- Craft paper to practice on
- Art canvases- 8x10 were used in this tutorial
- Vinyl gloves-
Instructions
- Grab your kids, spouse or friend and take a nature walk, what a great way to start a project. It's not just nature items you are gathering here, it is good memories! Enjoy the time and the outdoors together. You can take a walk through your yard or through the park and pick up a few leaves and interesting nature items that intrigue you. Take care to choose items that would work well to spray paint over and create a good silhouette (outline without details inside). Pick enough of each item to have extra to do a practice project as well as your main project.
- Choose the color(s )of spray paint you want to use. One color or several.
- Doing this project outside is best. But I put plastic down in our garage and left the garage door open for ventilation (it's windy where I live). This isn’t a craft to do inside.Again, spray paint drifts and is not good to inhale. Do this project in a well ventilated area and lay down paper or plastic to protect your surface.
- Do a practice run with each type of vegetation or items you have gathered. Lay down a piece of craft paper and arrange your extras of the first botanical you want to create. Hold in place by stems and spray paint straight down.Some lightweight vinyl gloves will really help in clean up.
- After you are pleased with your practice papers, repeat the process on each of your canvases. These are 8x10 inch canvases.