Typography
Tutorial
Having long
admired the cute typography art work in all the stores and all over Pinterest
but not wanting to pay the prices at the stores, I researched how to create one
myself.
But how to
get the letters even and steady looking.
Anyone that knows me knows that I have horrible penmanship and trying to
free hand something like this was not an option, if I wanted to be able to read
it later while hanging on the wall.
You Are My
Sunshine is a song I used to sing to my grandson while trying to get him to
settle down and decided to use the beginning verse as my art project.
Finally, I
found this site giving instructions on how to mirror print from your printer
and then transfer the print to your board, canvas or whatever you are using by
wetting the back of the paper.
The hardest
part was trying to figure out how to mirror print on my printer, but I finally
got it.
By following
the instructions from the tutorial, it did work…sorta! I ended up going back over the letters with a
pencil to fill in a little darker, however that tended to smudge a little if I
wasn’t careful. Spraying some
poly acrylic over the entire canvas prevented any additional smudging.
I wish I had
a picture of how it looked before I added some stain to give it an aged look,
but our computer crashed and I lost a ton of photos and docs…proving that we
really do need to regularly back up our files!
Big sigh! I don’t even know what
all I lost until I go back to find it and it’s not there. Big sigh!
Anyhoo…using
a little bit of the stain that I used on the Horse With No Name project, I did
a little dry brushing onto the canvas so that it wouldn’t be so “bright”. I'm beginning to appreciate age, patina, character, wrinkles,
cellulite….oh, let me get back on track.
And this is
how it looks while at work in a staged home….it makes me happy when skies are grey and we’ve had
plenty of those lately.
What
projects are you working on lately?
