You Are The Best Thing: stenciled canvas of luv

So found this enormous canvas at Goodwill a few weeks ago for $10. It’s four feet tall and wide, huge!  I tried so hard to find the original pre-makeover picture I first took , but it’s nowhere to be found.  Here is as close as I could recreate in Photoshop:

  Basically a giant barf galaxy.

  Here’s another before pic for you: this awkward bare wall in my bedroom, made even more awkward by that ridiculous baby window on the left.  What the?  Why?  Someone please explain.

And here’s my completed canvas:

Ahh!  So much prettier!  I was inspired by this project that I helped with at Mandi’s Epic Room Makeover last year.

The lyric is from one of my favorite songs, “You Are the Best Thing” by Ray LaMontagne.

I used my Silhouette to make a reverse stencil.  First I painted the frame black, and the entire canvas white.  Then I used gold to paint the approximate space where I wanted the words to go.  I cut the words out of vinyl with my Silhouette, placed them over the gold area, then painted it all white again.  When it dried, I removed the vinyl, and tada!  Finito.

I could have just used gold vinyl on a white canvas and been done, but I like the permanence of paint, plus the metallic gold has a little iridescence to it which looks really nice  in the light.

Whatcha think??