Coming up with a Christmas gift for the grandparents can be tricky. This past year I decided to give them a "coupon" for one of my paintings. They don't have a lot of wall space, so I couldn't use one that I had already made.
Here's the basic process I go through for creating one of these multi-canvas paintings:
Step 1. Sketch a rough draft. It's always good to get an idea of what you're going to do, before you put paint to canvas. Maybe it's just the accountant in me, but I don't want to waste paint/canvas (i.e. money) on something that's not going to look all that good. It's also good to have a guide so you know where everything is supposed to go, later.
Step 2. Apply the tape to where the lines will be. Make sure to use a tape that is adhesive enough to block the paint from going under it, but also will unstick with ease.
Step 3. Paint. I find it a lot less stressful to paint when the tape is there to protect my errors.
Step 4. Remove tape and you're done. I'm still going back and forth with which I prefer, painting the lines before or after the boxes. If I go with "before", what I'll do is paint the entire canvas the color of the lines (usually black). Then I'll apply the tape, where the lines should be, so that I can just remove the tape and be done (like in this case, though I left the lines white...i.e. "unpainted"). Otherwise you have to apply a lot more tape afterwards. Plus, it's a lot more work to make sure the new lines are of equal width their entire length.
So, there you go. Nice and easy. What's great about acrylics is that it dries quickly, so the whole project can be done in an afternoon.
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