I have been dying to try a pinwheel painting since I saw this on pinterest ages ago. Then I really got serious over the weekend after seeing a similar project on Oh Joy.
I bought a birch 18×24 canvas at Blick and marked the center with a pencil. Then I used painter’s tape to create triangles (one at time) so their points all matched up at the center.
I bought yellow, red, teal, cobalt blue and white acrylic paint and mixed to create different colors. The paint dried pretty quickly so I was able to tape off triangles right next to each other by adding a line of tape right on top of the painted edge.
I didn’t go into it with much of a plan for a color scheme and I am pretty happy with how it turned out.
I think I might need to seal it with something clear and I am pretty sure I am going to paint the edges of the canvas white.
At the moment, I don’t even have a place for it to hang in our current apartment (I moved stuff around for the first photo) but I am so excited to give it prime wall space in our next place. And speaking of our next place – I have a feeling it’s going to hold a lot of DIY art. I finished another painted piece on Monday (& will be sharing it tomorrow) and I still have 13 more projects to accomplish by late February…
This is project 12 of 26.
I am attempting to tackle 26 personal craft projects before I turn 27 on 02.22.12. You can follow my progress here on the blog, on pinterest or on flickr.
See project 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11.
enJOY it 
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