Nature On A Canvas

In my house, there were some bare walls that needed to be jazzed up. Fall is coming, and we needed some decor for the walls. We got thinking, what represents fall? The first thing we thought of was the leaves changing colors, so we decided to use the leaves as our main focus. This is how we thought to put leaves on a canvas. Keep scrolling to find out how!

Materials You’ll Need to Make this Project:

• Four Colors of Paint
• White Paint
• Gold Metallic Spray Paint
• Big Paint Brush or Sponge
• Four Used or White Canvases
• Multiple Leaves
• Spray Adhesive or Hairspray
• Blank Piece of Computer Paper

We started off our project by reusing old canvas. If you choose to buy new ones, you can skip this step. Paint your canvases white. They don’t need to be perfectly white since you will be painting over it again.

After you’ve let the white paint dry, paint each canvas a different color. The colors we used for ours were red, yellow-orange, brown, and green. Let these dry.

The next step will require spray paint and adhesive/hairspray. Do this outside. We decided that we wanted to spice up our canvases, so before setting the leaves down, we took some glitter spray and sprayed all of them.

This next step we did multiple ways. The first was was using the adhesive/hairspray and computer paper. To do that you lay the leaf on the computer paper and spray one side of the leaf. The side that was sprayed should then be laid onto the canvas. Peel the computer paper off and your leaf should be stuck on the canvas so you can spray paint it. This didn’t work well for us (probably because it was a windy day). Which leads me to the second thing we did, which was grab a bunch of rocks. We placed the leaves where we wanted them on the canvases and then put rocks all around the edges so they would stay put while we spray painted them. This seemed to work very well for us!

Next is the fun step, spray painting. Hopefully you put enough adhesive/rocks on it so your design doesn’t blow away (and if it is kind of windy, don’t be afraid to get a little messy and get you hand in there). Spray paint your canvas evenly and not too close so it doesn’t get blotchy.

Peel off the leaves and let the canvas dry. Then hang on your walls and enjoy!

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