Spray Paint Art

I've been looking for some ideas on how to decorate our apartment, since it's still kind of bare when it comes to wall art and I found this idea for our bedroom.

What you'll need:

- Canvas Panels (I used the 16x20 three pack)
- Spray Paints
- Foliage of your choosing
- Saw Tooth Hangers 
- Hot Glue

Prep Work

Lay your canvases out for their bottom layer of paint. This will be the color your leaves or flowers show as. I chose to go with a nice metallic silver that I happened to have left over from another project. It took about three coats to get the coverage I really wanted.

Exploring

We decided to take a trip down to our local park to look for our plants, but if you don't have the time you can always head to your local craft store. Should you decide to go with live plants, make sure to use them that day or the heat will wilt them. The poor Mimosa branch we were going to use closed up before we could paint with it. 

 Pro-tip: don't take more than you need and don't do serious damage to the tree. Make clean cuts. 

Painting

Now that you have all your supplies, it's time to get to the main part of the project. Lay your plants out as you see fit. All the leaves we decided to use were a bit clustered, so I cut about half the leaves off each branch for each panel. 

You can use pebbles to hold the leaves down, so they don't fly all over the place as you paint. I didn't have this brilliant idea till the last panel, but the effect looks pretty good. 

Once you've finished painting over the leaves, carefully remove the pebbles (if you used them) and the leaves from the canvas. Leave the panels out to air and don't fumigate your home. 

 

Hanging Your Art

I had some saw tooth hangers left over, again from another project and just hot glued them to the back of each panel. Make sure to carefully measure each panel before placing the hanger. Just because it says it's 16x20, doesn't mean it really is.