Lately I have had the fortunate opportunity to receive a couple multi-packs of mini canvasses. I’ve always wanted to try the really cool laser paintings that @shogun has shared, so I’ve been hoarding these things trying to think of what I wanted to do.
Originally I thought I could make a bunch of small ones and give them out individually, but today I received a 12 pack…and I started thinking that the big space on my dining room wall that I’ve been meaning to decorate or add a wall clock…might be more interesting with 12 mini canvasses.
So, how would you decorate it? Should I try lasering 12 small family portraits or pictures and put them in a grid on the wall? Should I lay them out like numbers on a clock (I’m not sure I’d like this, but I won’t know until I’ve tried), or should I attempt to engrave a much larger painting onto the 12 and put it together like a puzzle?
I keep thinking I’m going to have to use a good chunk of these as test pieces though since I’ve literally never done this before. And I’m probably going to have to reread the forum a few times to figure out how best to prep my photos. I took some nice thermal images of my car doing donuts before…think that might look cool…
Oh, that’s a nice pinterest board! My mini canvas search made me sad, because people were showing off their painting skills in miniature. Unfortunately, my max painting skills will most likely be covering these in gesso.
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with! And learning from your experience, as I have a set of these in my “bought on spec that I might someday use it” pile.
I’m thinking about one of these photos I took a while back. I feel like it would look cool, it seems like it’d be forgiving since it’s not the sharpest image, but I’d have to convert it to grayscale and work on my spray painting skills. I think I could break it into 12 squares. I think. I have the rest of the week off, but my brain is overloading itself with projects I need to work on, so my brain is stuck on what to do first.
I often have to tell myself when I am overwhelmed with tasks that freeze my brain and keep me from moving forward, that it’s like being in a room full of laundry that needs to be folded (got this example from a manga I read a million years ago). If I just pick up the piece closest to me and work on that, then move on to folding the next piece, eventually I’ll have finished it all…then the adult in me remembers that laundry is never-ending and I usually stop everything I’m doing at that moment to go start a load.
Oh, I’ll play with that. I’ve been trying to make a shopping list of paint colors. Wondering if I should just start with black and white. Right now I’ve got black and white gesso in my cart, not sure if I should get both or one.
Get both. You’ll either use both or just one and have the other for a new project later. If you never use it then you’ve only lost the cost of that one.
Waiting while trying to decide delays the start of the project you want to do and costs you psychic energy that depresses your desire to do the project - you just can’t seem to get started on anything.
What you save in trying to optimize the financial cost decision ends up costing you far more in mental energy and the ability to accomplish things.
Your future self won’t care about the cost of an extra bottle of gesso but it will care about the art you create.
I thought I had posted this somewhere but I cannot find it now. This is a fun arrangement for multiple canvases: Take a large image (this was about 30” by 30”) and tile it across multiple canvases. You have to allow for the gap between canvases, but it’s a cool effect.
That looks awesome!! I can’t believe I missed the one. Actually, turns out I didn’t miss it. I definitely liked that post before. Thanks for the link though @deirdrebeth , it’s exactly what I needed. I started ordering materials yesterday. Thank you @shogun for making such a thorough post. Much of my mental block is removed now.
