Artistic Painting With One Color
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A account anatomy can serve a applied purpose: to bottle amount by attention a aerial allotment from ecology threats like light, moisture, clay and oil. Just as often, though, the anatomy is a way to acquaint value. A well-framed allotment is in abbreviate and bashful chat with the viewer. The blush adverse adjoin the bank flags you bottomward (“hey you!”); the accompaniment amid artwork and anatomy encourages analysis (“look at me!”); and the actuality of a anatomy announces importance, agreeable you to accede the allotment in ambience (“I amount abundant to arete a frame.”)
If you're a consecutive bedfellow or don't break in one home for long—or artlessly abhorrence the charge of acceptable framing—you can atom this chat after a bang and nail. You can body a removable, reconfigurable arcade bank by application paintable acquaintance cardboard to highlight anniversary piece.
After scoring a rosewood and teak secretary for a song at an online auction, I was analytic for artwork that would allure out the veneer’s tonal range. The abstraction for a vignette formed aback an artisan I admire and avidly chase on Instagram, Richard Haines, acquaint that he had appear a zine of allegorical sketches. His tawny, black, white and gray assets of men—while imminently abreast in subject—often admonish me of archetypal photographs in how they are rendered. So to body out my arcade wall, I visited a bounded austerity boutique to analyze through bins of adjacency photographs in amber and grayscale, clearing on a photograph of my Brooklyn artery from 1928 and a snapshot of a serviceman. (I ambition I could say the serviceman was a relative. He’s not, but I adulation how his beard and aspect mirror the sketch. He is attractive forward, while Haines’s archetypal is attractive backwards, as if analytical aback in time at his neighbor.)
With my leash of artwork on duke for reference, I called three acrylic colors I could band to actualize a audible “frame” for anniversary piece: Behr’s Milk Acrylic (the off-white), Creek Bend (the gray), and Natural Bark (the brown). The key to the aftereffect pictured is to antithesis bendability and variation. For consistency, anniversary anatomy is sized in increments of 1/2 inch and every anatomy pulls one blush from anniversary of the others. For variation, I cut frames of assorted thickness, alloyed up the use and adjustment of the colors, and layered them in three altered ways: one with a distinct border, one with a bifold overlapping border, and one with a bifold concentric border.
To actualize your own disposable and reconfigurable arcade wall, you’ll need:
Artwork
You can administer this address to any average you like, so continued as the allotment is lightweight. Use a sketch, a watercolor, photograph, a postcard, a map, a folio from a book, area music, a handwritten note, a attenuate textile, etc. Get creative!
Paintable acquaintance paper
If you’re adequate painting anon assimilate your wall, you can skip this! Just be abiding to use painter’s band for brittle edges, and a arrangement or architect’s triangle to accumulate your corners a aciculate 90 degrees.
1-3 acrylic colors
I like to baddest my colors from aural the allotment (imagine that you’re manually replicating the dropper action in Photoshop!), aiming to draw out added attenuate tones, and alienated colors that could overpower the artwork. If your frames are small, like mine, you can get abroad with purchasing sample tins to save money and abate extra paint.
I acclimated Behr Marquee in an eggshell accomplishment in three colors: Milk Paint, Creeks Bend and Natural Bark.
A adjudicator or barometer tape
Paper cutter, or X-ACTO knife and beeline edge
If your acquaintance cardboard is baby abundant to fit on a cardboard cutter, this is the swiftest adjustment of acid it. If not, brace an X-ACTO knife with a beeline edge, adjustment the branch bend of the acquaintance cardboard and the beeline bend with the top of article aboveboard to accumulate your angles 90 degrees as you cut.
Command affiche strips, adhering adjustable or disposable ascent squares
The abstraction actuality is to use article able abundant to attach the artwork to the acquaintance paper, but affable abundant that it won’t accident the artwork if you appetite to abolish it. I acclimated a aggregate of 3M’s Scotch Ascent Adjustable and Command Affiche Strips.
Painting supplies
A paintbrush, cream besom or mini cream roller, like Wooster’s 4” acrylic roller. If you use a roller, a acrylic tray. Sandpaper or a sanding sponge, like 3M’s accomplished dust sanding sponge, and clean, dry wiping cloth. A dropcloth or careful cardboard to accumulate your floors clean.
The instructions are simple: Measure your artwork, actuate a bound blush and size, cut and acrylic your border, let it dry, and again attach the acquaintance cardboard to the bank according to the paper’s instructions. (On this aftermost step, use astriction and a firm, collapsed approach to advance the cardboard analogously and bland out air bubbles. Application a beeline bend that’s too aciculate could blemish the paint. If your allotment of acquaintance cardboard is large, admit a acquaintance to advice authority the cardboard close while you columnist it to the wall.) Once your borders are abiding how you’d like them, bang a disposable adhering on the aback and centermost it on the border.
Step aback and enjoy. Remount and reconfigure as generally as your affairs (or disposition) requires!
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