DIY: Birth Stats Subway Art

A few months ago I came across this post where you could print out subway art to decorate with. From that I was inspired to create some pretty "subway art" of my own featuring Ariana's birthday stats.

I opened a blank page in picmonkey and played around different fonts, texts, sizes and moving it around until I liked how it looked. I used black, gray and yellow for my alternating text colors. Changing ended up changing the fonts to make each line stand out.

I printed it on regular printer paper and mod podged it onto a black canvas I had lying around. I painted the border of my canvas a matching yellow color and gave it a thin layer or mod podge over the top of the paper. It's not perfectly smooth but I like the textures it gives it.

It's displayed on a shelf in the living room by a picture of me and Ariana on my first Mother's Day.

It was a simple project for a personalized piece of artwork. You should make one too! It would even be fun to do with wedding dates, places, times!

P64: Mahogany

This week for Project 64 you get a sneak peek at a piece of artwork I'm working on. 

Music has been a big part in my life these past few weeks. It has inspired me to create some art including it. For this piece I was aging some sheet music in tea to create a certain look when I found this week's color.

Find more pretty photos here on Project 64 blog.

P64: Blue

This week the color was blue and I never even had the chance to color with the blue crayon so I hope I got the color right since I was trying to match it online.

We went to Berlin this weekend and I got to see what was remaining of the Berlin Wall. It's hard to imagine that this wall existed during my lifetime. It's hard to imagine the life that people lived on the other side of the Berlin Wall. It's hard to imagine that over 136 people died trying to cross the wall.

So, when I saw this painting by Kani Alavi at the East Side Gallery, an open air gallery of paintings along a portion of the wall, I knew it should be my photo for the color this week.

Just looking at it you can feel the hugeness and urgency of the waves of people flooding, like rushing water, thorough the finally opened wall.

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xo's

Cat

Oh, and more Berlin pictures to come this week!