Yes I painted this! It's Van Gogh's Bridge at night in Rhone France.
So for mother's day I got this paint by number project from Amazon. I love Van Gogh's work, always have and will probably always will. I have the Cafe in Arles France to do next.
Well I started to wonder since I like to be cheap frugal yeah that's it frugal how could I make paint by number projects on my own. I of course either google or pinterest search the heck out of it and found this video...
It teaches you how to transfer images to canvas that you can either just paint or leave as is. Which to me was like WTF have I been doing wrong? Nothing...when one thinks about it. You don't know unless you look for it right?
Well in the video she's using canvas that is already (no gresso needed) and mod podge. I'm like wait a minute here....I have tons of paint from step-daughter painting and hiding rocks and the only thing I am missing is canvas and the image but I can print that? I know the video tutorial states to take your image to print shop and make sure that it fits the canvas your using. I like the 16x20 not too big and not to small. It's like the medium sized canvas all around.
So now I have been on Pinterest to find awesome famous paintings done in coloring page style to print/save and get printed out at my staples to do these pictures. Glad that Michael's craft store is right near it. Once I do one I will update this blog as well for the finished project. I'm excited and can't wait!
If your interested in doing the paint by number thing and you can use this site...
**NOTE** you will need to mix colors to match the palette that you are working for to create the color pattern for the image you choose. So be mindful of that.
**Checkout** this page will convert images into color pages for you. It will take time to learn to tweak them to what you want.