I Made My Own Artwork!

My fascination with Picnik continues. On Tuesday, I told you how you could make your own artwork using this great website. Well, I got to thinking…instead of just talking about it, I would actually DO it! And I did!

So let’s revisit my living room. Of course, it’s still in the beginning stages, and I still have NO finished furniture for the room, and none of the projects are really finished…so of course, it’s the PERFECT time to think about artwork, right!? Yep, that’s about how I do things. I have the hardest time staying focused. I want to get to the fun stuff!!

I’ve known for a while that I wanted to do a series of pictures on this long wall in the living room, to the right of the built-in cabinets.

I wanted a series of six or eight pictures, and I needed them to be as cheap as possible. While I would love to buy some really nice artwork, or even support a great Etsy artist, it’s simply not in the budget right now.

So instead, I went online, did a simple Google search for things like “blue flowers” and “pink flowers” and “yellow flowers”, and looked through the images. Within minutes, I had found the ones I wanted to use. I then headed over to Picnik to “posterize” the pictures. Here’s an example of one of the pictures I found. This is the original:

And then after using the Posterize feature, and also editing the photo by increasing the sharpness, I arrived at this:

Pretty great, huh? Here’s another one before:

And the after:

So I continued the process with six more photos, and this is the whole set of eight that will go on my wall. With them so little, the detail is lost, but having seen the ones above, you can imagine what they look like:

And here’s an idea of what they’ll look like on my wall:

I love it! Now I just need to find the perfect frames.

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