How Cheap Is It to Create Diy Canvas Art

Fine art is an odd affair. It can take a while – years even – to find art that speaks to you. I roughshod in love with textured abstract art after seeing it on Pinterest, but it never occurred to me until recently that I could achieve the same await without the hefty toll tag of ownership original textured art.

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This textured canvas is beautiful, but goes for nearly $600

Afterward doing some research, I stumbled upon Gesso art which is what some artists apply to create the textured canvass look, and eventually found that using drywall mud/spackle could create a similar look. I knew I wanted to try out the drywall mud thing, but quite frankly, I was feeling lazy about figuring out how to frame a canvas.

….Until I stumbled upon Miracle on Thirty Fourth's IG stories a few weeks ago. She had the thought to become to Home Goods/TJMaxx and buy a framed canvas and paint over that. Brilliant. I considered going to a thrift store, but figured information technology would exist easier to just go to Home Goods since their canvases are relatively inexpensive.

And then I went to Home Goods and establish this simple gold framed canvass for only $24.99!

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Here's everything y'all'll demand to create textured sail art (pssst – yous may even already have some of these items in your habitation):

Drywall mud – a smaller tub is fine, which is less than $iv at Home Depot/Lowe's.
A framed canvass – Try your local austerity shop or the clearance section at HG/TJMaxx/Marshalls, as most of their art is relatively inexpensive. The canvas I used was 26″x26″ and $24.99.
Drywall taping knife to apply the mud to the sheet. Mine was well-nigh $iii.fifty
Palette knife gear up for spreading the drywall around the canvass to create the texture you want. I bought plastic ones in the art department at JoAnn for less than $5
Painter'southward record to cover the edges of the frame. Ordinarily effectually $vi per coil.
Paint castor – I use Wooster pigment brushes, and the one I used for this project was $7.89
Pigment colour of choice to use over the drywall texture. Because you're using drywall mud, yous can get away with chalk paint, acrylic or latex paint. Fifty-fifty a sample size or two of a color could work, because this really doesn't require that much pigment! With a coupon, I paid $4.78 for this pigment from JoAnn.

Total price for this project: $57

Stride i:

One time you have all the materials, lay your canvas on a protective flat surface and record the edges of the frame. You don't desire to get paint or drywall mud on the frame or on your floor/table.

Step 2:

Using your drywall taping knife, start applying the drywall mud to the canvas in a sparse layer and spread evenly to ensure the sheet (the original art) is completely covered. DON'T brand the same mistake that I did and spread likewise much on at i time. This will cause the canvas to cleft while information technology dries, which mine did. But now I know for adjacent time 🙂

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Step 3:

Once the entire canvas is covered in a layer of drywall mud, use the knife to make whatever texture design yous want. This took me nigh xxx minutes to do and I used this video to guide my palette pocketknife motions until I was happy with the canvas texture. I likewise took a step back and made sure that information technology looked good from afar also.

At that place'south a limited corporeality of fourth dimension you lot can play around with the drywall until it starts to cure, so keep that in mind when planning the time it will take for you to complete this step.

I just want to say that I am not an artist. In fact, I've ever sucked at creating "fine art." But I merely need to say that this was Not difficult at all! If I can do it, anyone can.

Anyway, here's what my sheet looked like afterwards using unlike palette knifes to create texture:

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Step 4:

Once it dries completely (usually after ~24 hours), grab your paint color of choice (I used this 1 from JoAnn) and just showtime painting the canvas with your paint brush. Mine took about one 60 minutes to dry and I didn't need a second glaze.

Uncomplicated equally that!

And the concluding production (which I have yet to figure out where to hang in our home):