DIY: Personalized Peep and the Big Wide World Canvas Art

courtesy Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Peep-Big-Wide-World-Canvas/dp/B008FX7LWY/?keywords=peep+and+the+big+wide+world&qid=1379252821&ref=sr_1_25&ie=UTF8&sr=8-25

I saw this on Amazon.com, and fell in love. Again, my son's a huge fan, but cash is low this year, so most of his gifts are going to be handmade. 

Now, I'm an artist. I have canvas. I have paints. I have brushes. I don't have the time, but we buck up and bear it. Here was my solution to make a Peep personalized canvas art for Monkeyboy.

The first step was to find the image I wanted to paint and sketch it on a 16" x 20" canvas.

The colors came out very vibrant. I left plenty of room on the left hand side to paint his name. I had completed a preview in Photoshop to be sure I had the placement just right.

Now, to make the letters look like vinyl or cut out fonts, I printed them off on a printer via MS Word.











After cutting the letter out, I scribbled graphite/pencil all over the back of the print outs.

I taped the letters where I wanted them placed on the canvas, then I used a pencil to trace the letters onto the board.

The graphite left a light outline of the letters in the font I wanted.

A very steady hand, and the result was absolutely fabulous. Made even more so because this didn't cost me a dime since I had all the supplies in stock. 

Until the next!

Yankee Doodle Dandy,

– TYG