What Is the Thick Art You Put on Walls

We made a huge textured sail art slice for our dining room and I'm going to show you lot how we did information technology!

I fabricated everything completely from scratch meaning I built my own canvass frame, I did my ain art, and I made the floating frame but you can as well skip part of these past ownership a canvas frame or skipping the floating frame, so I've separated the tutorial into 3 steps so you can skip downwardly to whatsoever step you want.

But if you're not into DIY or just not feeling super creative, here are like art pieces yous can buy gear up-made: McGee & Co (rectangular) | McGee & Co (square) | Crate & Barrel | Anthropologie | Pottery Barn.

Ok so I literally fabricated everything out of fleck wood and unused materials that were lying around my house but in case you don't take these things on hand, I've tried to find sources for as much equally I could.

Footstep ane: HOW TO Brand A Canvass FRAME

Note: if you don't want to make your own canvas from scratch, you can totally just buy one. I actually couldn't notice ane that was the size I wanted (5′ x 4′), only depending on what size art y'all want to make, it may be easier to just purchase one. Hither are a few that are very similar to the ones I made:

• Canvas & frame set: Michaels | Amazon (largest I could find)

If you desire to brand your frame though, you'll need these materials:

• 1×two forest: Dwelling Depot (My canvas was five'x4′ so I needed iii for the frame + ane for supports)
• Cotton canvas fabric: I got mine from a small textile supply store a long time agone but I call back this is the same or similar: Amazon | Amazon.

Tools:

• Miter saw: Dwelling Depot
• Heavy duty staple gun: Home Depot
• Locking pliers: Home Depot
• Screwdriver & screws if your sheet is big
• Nailer & nails if your canvas is smaller

Instructions for making the frame:

1. Determine how large you want your canvas to be. I wanted mine to be about 5ft 10 4ft so I cut two 1x2s down to 60″ each and another ane in half (two 48″ pieces) and used that for the exterior frame. If you accept a small frame, then you can get abroad with just little diagonal support pieces in the corners, merely if your frame is as large as mine or larger, then you'll likewise need additional support pieces then I also cutting an additional 1×2 in half to create two more back up pieces. So I used the cut-offs from the two 1x2s that I got the lx″ pieces from to create diagonal support pieces. The exact sizes don't actually matter as long as they functionally back up the frame. And then in total I needed:
   – 2 10 60″ lengths
   – 4 ten 48″ lengths
   – four x diagonal support pieces with 45* corners so that it could brace against the exterior frame
2. Using pilot holes & screws, get together your frame starting with the 4 exterior frame pieces, then interior vertical supports, and finally the diagonal supports.

Instructions for attaching the canvas fabric:

1. The bones thought here is that you're going to wrap the canvas over the front of the frame and staple it to the back. But you have to pull the canvas tight or you'll end up with ripples and nobody wants that. So here'due south how we did ours: Get-go, we smoothed the sheet out to get rid of whatsoever fold lines, then placed the frame over it and secure ane side all the way, stapling it to the wood every 1-2 inches, merely be sure to stop about 2″ before the corners because you'll do the corners at the end.
2. So continue on to secure the other sides with more than staples. Nosotros always would kickoff in the middle and work our way to the corners. We used locking plyers to help pull the sail tight – simply be careful because you can rip the canvas if you pull besides tight.
3. Finally practice the corners. I've shown a moving-picture show to kinda show how I folded information technology. There'south no right or wrong fashion to do information technology – just make it look groovy and well tucked and give it a couple extra staples.

STEP ii: HOW TO MAKE DRYWALL MUD / JOINT Compound Fine art

Materials:

• Joint compound/drywall mud: Abode Depot (I e'er use this dust command 1)
• Paint (I used BM Simply White in matte)

Tools:

• Trowels/taping knives. I used these two sizes: Home Depot / Amazon | Home Depot / Amazon
• Paint brush

Instructions for mud fine art:

1. Before yous begin texturing your canvass, you'll need to paint the entire sheet with any type of house pigment you have on hand to essentially seal the canvas fabric. I saw that pros exercise this with something called "gesso" (?) but I figured that firm paint would probably function the same and it worked for me. Basically the way I empathise information technology is that the thought is to make it so that the fabric is a little stronger base to concord your mud so that the wet won't sink into information technology as much. Anyhoo, just paint the whole thing and let it dry fully before starting anything else. I used matte wall paint and a paint brush – really making sure that I got the paint into the weave of the fabric.



2. In one case your painted canvas is dry, it's time to texture! There are no rules to this procedure. Just gloop a bunch of drywall mud onto the canvass and shape it until you're happy with how it looks. [Tip #ane: if you lot've never worked with drywall mud earlier, I would advise practicing a lilliputian on a fleck board or something just so you get a feel for it. I've mudded and taped a ton of drywall at this point so I'm really familiar with how the mud goes on and what textures to await for just if I wasn't, I recall I would accept liked to practice a fiddling outset. Tip #2: if you add a trivial water, you tin create dissimilar consistencies in the mud, which in plow volition wait a picayune different as you smear it so play effectually with that. Tip #three: have a few different tools on hand. I actually just used my drywall taping pocketknife and trowel then it doesn't have to be fancy merely I suggest at least ii different sizes of tools.]
3. Allow this to dry out FULLY, especially if y'all accept some thicker mud sections. I let mine dry out for about v days before moving to the next step. Left film beneath is after about i solar day of drying.
4. After it'due south fully stale, y'all may detect that sections of the mud have cracked. Don't worry, this is normal. Only go in with a gloved hand and a trivial bit of mud and use your finger to *gently* repair the cracks by calculation a small amount of more mud over the cracks (also if the crack is larger, fill in the gap with mud) but smooth information technology dorsum over so you don't lose the shape of the texture and lines you created. I did this in sections all over my unabridged canvas. The idea here is that you want your mud to exist firmly secured to your canvas and if there are cracks, I'd be worried information technology would just crack and fall off once you moved it to a vertical position so I wanted to repair all the cracks to strengthen the overall mud structure. I've shown some before (center) and afterward (right) pics beneath:



5. Let the scissure repairs to dry out FULLY. I let mine dry out for 2 days.
6. Once dry, seal everything by painting over it with wall paint. I used the same matte pigment that I used to seal the canvas prior to applying the mud. Paint information technology by mitt with a paintbrush and CAREFULLY go over everything – like get right into whatsoever cracks and gently get around all the texture. Yous want to create a seal-glaze without hiding any of the more than subtle texture so this takes some attending. Also paint down the sides of the canvas also just to really seal it all up.
7. Allow this to dry FULLY. I let mine dry for 24 hours.

STEP 3: HOW TO Brand A FLOATING FRAME

Materials:

• one/iv″ strips of any material (I ripped down MDF)
• 1×2 wood (if you program to stain it) or MDF (I used MDF)
• Pigment (I used BM Revere Pewter in Satin) or Stain

Tools:

• Table saw: Home Depot | Amazon (if you need to rip down MDF)
• Nailer: Home Depot (& nails)
• Wood filler
• Sandpaper

Instructions for floating frame:

1. Now, patently this is totally optional and in that location are many means to frame art, but if you want to create a floating frame, this is how I did mine: Essentially you need to create a gap (I did a i/4″ gap) between the canvass and the exterior frame y'all're going to build. My frame was made from 1×2 (meaning it had a depth of 1.v″ so the style I created the gap was to simply nail a strip of wood that was 1/4″ x 3/four″ between the canvas frame and the exterior frame. I created my strips by ripping down some MDF I had on hand just plywood would piece of work fine or I think some hardware stores might have something already made that could work. There's no rules for this, it only has to exist a shallower depth and so your frame to create the gap. And it doesn't have to be perfect – the idea is that these strips won't actually ever prove.
2. So y'all nail the strips to the canvas frame. I also painted mine a darker greyness (blackness would work also) to accentuate the shadow line just that's optional.
3. So measure & cut 1x2s for your terminal exterior frame (I mitered my corners but that'south optional) and nail them into place. I then wood-filler'ed the seams and once that was dry, I painted information technology all gray.

That's it! At present your art piece is fix to hang!

And if you're following u.s.a. on Instagram and familiar with the layout of our dining room and you're wondering how on earth I got those straight pics of the fine art piece, I was sitting on our dining table lol! Finally, if you're wondering why these pics are a little darker than my other pics, I took these at night so there'southward no natural light so for those of you asking what our firm looks similar at night, this is an example.

SIMILAR OPTIONS

If you're not into DIY or but not feeling particularly creative, here are similar art pieces you can buy ready-fabricated: McGee & Co (rectangular) | McGee & Co (square) | Crate & Barrel | Anthropologie | Pottery Barn.

Other sources from these pics:

• Chevron vase: Crate & Barrel
• Holly stems: Pottery Barn
• Sideboard: Tutorial | Like: Wayfair | Crate & Barrel

For more sources from our Dining Room, click here.
For more of our DIY tutorials, click here.
To explore the other rooms in our house, click here.

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