Monday, April 12, 2010

Homemade Wallpaper

I wanted to share with you, my newest art creation. This project cost me a total of $15.00. It's a cheap way to create your own wallpaper without the cost of buying a pre-made one. Extremely useful for college students with low budgets.

All you need is some cheap paper, either newspaper or scrap paper. Next, you want to head to the store and buy some double-sided tape and spray paint. Preferably black but if you want to spice up your sky, and got some cash to burn get some blue and purple. Then spray paint all the paper you're using, sometimes it's good to go back over and spray twice. I only sprayed the newspaper once, the reason being I didn't have a large budget. Then once you have completed spray painting all the paper, start attaching the double-sided tape to the back of each paper.
Align all the paper on your wall, try to cover as much area as possible depending how big you want your city or landscape. Once all the paper is up, you'll need a pen and an X-acto knife. Now I used random object's laying around to create the outlines of my buildings such as, books, tissue box, rulers, a CD, and cardboard. Feel free to create whatever you want, I had a vague idea of the image I wanted. Use the X-acto knife and cut out all the outlined areas. Depending on where you cut, you may have to go back and add more tape.
I also have plans to add stars, a mountain range and airplanes. Here's the photo when it's darker.

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