Multi-Panel Wall Art for a Kids’ Room
All my life I dreamed of being at least a little bit of an artist, but something went wrong 🤭 Now, with craft supplies readily available, I suggest trying painting by colouring a transferred picture. We will keep that little secret to ourselves. 😉
The key is to use good materials: acrylic or tempera paints, brushes in sizes 2, 3, 6, and 15, and primed 20 × 20 cm stretched canvases. Choose child-safe, labelled materials and provide adult supervision when children use paints, scissors, or spray products.
We also need tracing paper. Apply a background colour to the canvases by squeezing paint into a container and thinning it with water to the desired consistency.
Trace the selected drawing onto tracing paper. A printed design is the easiest option; do not press or trace directly on a monitor screen.
Transfer the drawing to the canvas: secure the tracing paper so it does not shift, then trace the outlines with a pencil.
Fill in the base colour, then the smaller shapes inside the filled areas. Once they are dry, paint the fine details: it is essentially a carefully coloured DIY colouring page. 🙃
Use a fine size-2 brush for the outlines. Uneven lines can be touched up with ordinary markers. For the final finish, use matte or satin spray varnish only in a well-ventilated area, following the product label and keeping children away until fully dry.
In a multi-panel format the pictures make cheerful wall art for a child's room. Mount finished canvases securely, out of reach of young children.
A great idea for people who are not quite at ease with art. It came out easy, sweet, and relaxed, just right for a child's room. You could make equally simple pictures of cartoon pastries, cups of coffee or tea, cocktails, or fruit and create an original set for the kitchen. ;)