GrowingUp

I saw a minimalist painting of trees hanging in a Banana Republic and thought it would look cool in my apartment. The more I looked at it, I began to think I could do that myself. So, I bought a brush, small canvas, and some beige and dark brown acrylic paints. I started with a smaller picture in case I was wrong and couldn’t do it myself after all. I asked a lady at the store for some advice and she told me I should gesso the canvas before painting it. So, I did – though not very well. I was too impatient to wait 24hrs and I started painting immediately. It may not be a perfect work of art and definitely not everyone’s preferred style, but it turned out exactly the way I wanted. I think it looks pretty good for my first time. I’m thinking about doing some larger scale paintings now. Just out of curiousity, if you are into this style of art, how much would someone pay for something like this? It’s about 12” x 12”. It was a lot of fun to do, and if I keep it up I’ll run out of wall room. It might be fun to keep painting and sell on ebay or something.

I have a lot of design ideas. Right now, I’d really like to build a high quality solid wood storage unit. It would actually be two modular units that can be repositioned for multiple uses. I would more than likely use it as an entertainment unit at first. I want a really modern streamlined look with a dark chocolate brown finish. I’ve done some research and I think I need to use Walnut. However, I’m having a difficult time finding the wood I need since I think I’m needing boards approximately 2 inches thick, and 15 inches wide. Any advice would be much appreciated.