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The first thing I did in preparation for my apartment was designing some wall art. Once all the stickers are peeled off you get your final product! Using the light I could see exactly where the stickers were, and since the paint was thick I outlined them with an exacto-knife and peeled the stickers off. It actually worked and gave the painting more dimension.Īfter the top coat dried I peeled the letters off under a light. Unfortunately the first time I did this I did not pay attention to the stickers and noticed some shifted, so after the gray dried I repositioned some of the stickers and painted over it with a red-pink color. I squeezed some paint out straight on the canvas and spread it around using an old gift card. The first paints I used were gray acrylic paint and white acrylic paint. I used the same gift card technique that I used for my world atlas painting. I chose to place the stickers aligned to the left because it looks clean and I didn't have to worry about words being off-centered. Color or texture of the stickers do not matter because they are just stencils!Īfter that I stuck the stickers to the canvas, using a ruler and pencil to draw straight lines as a guide. When selecting your quote I suggest tallying the amount of each letter you need so you know exactly how many packs of sticker letters to buy (I got away with three). I chose John 13:7 because throughout school and the other stresses in life it is a daily reminder to hold onto the fact that God has your back. Then I found the quote that I wanted to use. I used one of my recycled canvases that I spray painted white.

After I got the initial grout off I went over it again with a Q-tip to get the sand and grout off of the shells.

Go over the shells with a wet sponge to get the grout off of them.

Let stand for 20 minutes, allowing the shells to set.

I just scooped a bit of grout on the brush at a time and covered as much of the shells and cracks as possible, don't worry about covering the shells.

Once the glue has dried paint over the shells with the grout using the painter's brush.

I mixed it enough with a plastic spoon to where there is a thick consistency like concrete.

I took a measuring cup of water to add a little at a time.

Fill the rest of the canvas with shells and glue them down,.

I took the lid off the glue and used a little crappy paint brush to paint the backs of the shells with glue.

I took a hammer to the sea shells and broke them into pieces.

I drew the elephant outline with a pencil on the canvas panel.

The beautiful thing about making mosaics is that you can pick up all of the broken pieces nobody else wants.

Because I did an elephant I got a lot of oyster shells for the gray and then shells that weren't too rounded.