About a month ago I decided I was tired of our plain white waffle pattern shower curtain. So on a girls night out for my birthday, my friends and myself decided to stop by TJ Max (or TJs as Maddie calls it! ha!) to shop for cute outfits. Well rather than finding a cute outfit, I found this!
Isn't this baby beautiful? At $15.99 I couldn't turn it down knowing my bathroom was in dire need of some color. One thing this beauty doesn't lack.
It has really spruced up the bathroom this past month, but now I have to switch my gear to the other side of the room. The wall above the toilet is plain. Like blah plain. So I turned to Pinterest for a little inspiration. I started to think I should integrate the same colors from the shower curtain over but I wasn't sure how. Then it hit me, why am I over thinking it? I love the chevron aspect of my shower curtain, so why not just make some chevron art.
I grabbed my Prismacolor markers, did some color matching between my markers and shower curtain, and quickly got down to business. The colors I chose were; Indigo Blue, Aquamarine, Light Aqua, Yellow Ochre, and French Grey 50%.
Rather than dashing out to a craft store and spending money, which since becoming a home owner I'm finding is a extremely precious thing, I opted to use some 8 1/2 x 11 card stock that I already had laying around the house. I trimmed the card stock down by about a half inch on the top edge and side edge. I then used my ruler and marked off every 1 1/2" on the long side of the card stock, and measured right in the middle of the short edge, and then "guesstimated" where the even marks on either side of that was. (Got to love guessimating!) I then made a grid on my card stock so I could create my chevron pattern.
You can see my concept of my grid in the picture above. I was in a work with what you've got situation, since I couldn't find a ruler, so I used a scrap piece of card stock to connect my points.
I erased all the lines from the grid which left me with just my chevron pattern.
And then I repeated that two more times!
I went off my picture of the shower curtain, (I know I know, surprising that I didn't work on my art in the bathroom right?) so I could mimmic the color pattern onto my templets. I used the fine point of my Prisma's to trace an outline before filling in the chevron areas with the bold tip side.
After many a few hours/Grey's Anatomy episodes and a lunch break for some Penn Station, I was finally finished! Which left me with this, and I love it.
I've been brainstorming on how I want to hang them. As of right now I'm thinking white frames. I'll probably pick some up from Dollar Tree, hopefully tomorrow (but I'm not going to be to ambitious!) I'm planning on hanging them like I've got them laying above.
I think we should get a close up of how pretty they are, shouldn't we?
I can't wait to get them hung, and also for my Prismacolor head ache to go away, man those bad boys are potent. After many hours spent using those in rendering class in school, I'm just thanking my lucky stars this was a quick project!
Has anyone else done any DIY art lately? Hopefully you already had stuff laying around the house like me and didn't have to spend any money!
Anyways, happy Wednesday guys!
