Bird and Text Collage Wall Art
Make your own bird wall art with printed bird templates and a textual collage for the background. This wall art craft project shows you how to create wall decor with the look of pricier designer pieces.
Materials:
- Two Canvases
- Permanent Marker
- Printed Birds to trace
- Scissors
- Paint, Wallpaper or Vintage pages to create a canvases back ground
- Glue or Mod Podge
Instructions:
It's easy to find images of birds online by doing an image search. Print your images on card stock or mount them on card stock to create a firm template. Cut them out and your ready to go!
To create some fun texture and interest cover your canvas in Scrapbook paper, Paint or Vintage book pages! To adhere any sort of paper mix two parts water to one part school glue or Mod Podge. Paint your paper with your glue mixture and lay smoothly on your canvas. Once the entire canvas is covered let it dry over night before moving onto the next step.
When it's dried completely lay your two canvases next to each other.
Use a pencil to free hand your tree branches. Be sure to continue your branch from one canvas to the next.
Outline your penciled sketch with your permanent marker.
Color in your branches completely.
Place your bird images on the branches and trace them with a pencil. Remember you can make a bird face the other way by flipping them over!
Color in your birds.
Now we'll add our details! Draw on leaves and smaller branches and color them in. Lastly you'll want to color it all in one last time to insure a deep dark silhouette and to cover up any uneven marker strokes.
Hang them side by side and enjoy!
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msdeb21
Jul 21, 2018
This is a super cute idea. It opens up a lot of possibilities of using newspaper or book pages for backgrounds. I do not have a steady enough hand to color over a picture, so I will die-cut my shapes. I like the idea of cutting shapes in seasonal themes and colors, like black cats and bats for Halloween, and blue snowflakes for winter.
JMitchell
Jun 14, 2015
Notes to consider Pages from old books are not acid-free. Using a smallish paint brush with acrylic craft paint might be quicker than markers.
bhoff71bh 9892535
May 18, 2013
This is so great. I have several old cork boards that are framed that this would look wonderful doing.
rarepattern
Jul 25, 2012
I just made this last night and absolutely love it. Thanks for posting :)
cheetahgirl
May 09, 2012
Super cute! You could make smaller ones one smaller canvases for quick gifts. Also, you could make ANY animal and their habitat. I tried bears in a forest (trees) and it was SUPER cute
Bribcrafterr
Feb 09, 2012
this is awesome. I've done this before but used sheet music, printouts, and an x-acto knife. It came out really cute.
dafree
Jul 07, 2011
This is a fantastic craft idea! I love the outdoors and always looking for new ways to express my love of nature. This is a great way to recycle old books and newspapers too!
nishibert 0095763
Jul 07, 2011
Love this. What a great idea. This could also be done with black vinyl on the Cricut Machine. The new cartridge, Pagoda, has some beautiful images in oriental motif. I am going to get busy and try a few different versions. Thanks!
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