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When Clever Gal can't afford the things she wants, she makes them. It's a good thing she's not a perfectionist...

I had always wanted to try painting. The vintage wall mural was my first attempt at it and I used an overhead projector and transparency for most of the process.  Then when I moved I had to paint over her. Oh, the agony. So now I'm on to painting on canvas. 

I deliberately left a very blank wall over my couch so that I could hang a large painting over it. But it's not easy to find a painting that goes with pink and lime green and if you do find it, it's not big enough for the space or not small enough for the wallet. That's a job for Clever Gal, if ever there was one. But first I had to practice. This painting was going to be in a prime location. It had to be presentable. So I started with a smaller project for the basement guest room. That way only people who were invited far enough into the house to see the guest room would ever have to see it--the cable guy would not have the honour. 

The trial run. I used stickers and painted over them in red to get the white flower reveal. They needed quite a bit of touching up since, wouldn't you know it, stickers curl up when you get them wet. I'm rather pleased with my clever brush technique.

Click the image of the guest room to see it in place.

Now that I have clearly mastered the art of painting it's time to move on to the show piece. I took a photo of some tulips a while back and they would serve as my subject. I used the overhead projector method again, but this time it only worked for a basic outline. After that I couldn't really see much of the details so I turned it off and worked off the original photo. And here it is!

There are some things I would do differently with regards to the composition, but I'm generally happy with it. Happy enough to hang it prominently in my house! If all else fails, I just admit to having done it myself and everyone thinks it's a great effort. 

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