How To Make A Print Look Like A Painting

Want a change of scenery over your pall or other area of your home but don't have the budget to invest in a new painting?

Here'due south how you tin can make a faux painting by using an art poster/print.

Select a print thatfits your size requirements.

This poster/print came from Hobby Lobby. Information technology is about the size I needed to go in an existing

frame that I had. I had to cut it down some to fit in the frame. Any text will also demand to be cut

off to make it look like a painting so keep that in mind when selecting a size of impress.

Information technology also helps to "fool the eye" if the print has

a painterly await to it with visible brush strokes.

Cut a piece of foam cadre board to fit snugly inside the frame.

Cut the print to be the same size equally the cream core.

Attach the print to the foam core with spray adhesive.

When that is dry, spray the print with a clear acrylic sealer.

Using spray agglutinative keeps the impress from getting wrinkles and bumps that regular

mucilage would produce. Spray adhesive can exist a mess...I always practice it outside.

Wait for a low humidity twenty-four hour period to exercise this step.

The sealer besides helps to keep the print from wrinkling when the gel medium is applied.

When the sealer is dry, use the gel matt medium

(found in the creative person department of craft stores or in art stores).

Put the medium on in the aforementioned direction that the brush strokes on your impress are going. If your print does non have a brush-stroke look, utilize the medium as if you were painting the objects on the print, following the shape of the object with the brush to create stroke looks.

You can employ the matt medium with a castor or a pallette knife.

A pallette knife is as well in the artist section of arts and crafts stores. This one is just plastic. Information technology came in

a pack of near 4 different sizes for $3. I felt very "cocked" using it. It gives a different expect than

castor strokes. I retrieve the artist of the print used a pallette knife to paint some portions of the original.

You can build up layers of the medium, letting it dry betwixt coats.

It'south a personal preference how much/how thick you want the medium to be.

Fifty-fifty though I was using the heavy gel medium, information technology took several coats to get as much

dimension as I wanted on the impress. I accept seen some prints in stores with the medium applied

too thick (for my taste) and in a haphazard castor stroke manner that did non look real at all.

Y'all could apply the medium heavier than this if y'all like. The piece does non scream "look at

my brush strokes!" when you come in the room but up close it does await and even experience similar

a real painting.

The "painting'south" birch trunks become with the Winter White Decorating look that I take in my living room now. T he greenish

of the background goes well with my wall colour.

The birch trees in my surface area are mostly "River Birch" and

not as big every bit the ones in the "painting" only I

gathered some fallen branches and bawl from our nearby

birches to add to the white urns on the mantle.

Later on the visual overload of Christmas,

I like to see the spare-ness of branches during

the residuum of Wintertime. Here are a few photos I have

taken recently of the beauty of branches.

Sunsets...

...and moonrise.

The frame that they birches are in was in one case brown and smaller in width. Information technology was on a (real) painting just information technology looked drab.

To brighten and widen information technology, I painted it a couple of shades of white and added some moulding to information technology.