Painting provides a positive release of creativity.
When decorating a bedroom, some people struggle to find wall decor that fits their style and budget. By creating canvas paintings, you customize a piece of art to match your bedroom at a low cost. This savvy decorating technique also unleashes the inner artist and makes for a weekend project for adults and children. You can find canvases in various sizes at any craft store along with your choice of acrylic or oil-based paint.
Abstract Art
Artists of all levels can create abstract art on canvases. For this art project, select colors that coordinate with your bedroom and find a painting technique that will complement the space. A canvas with splatter-painted designs will look nice in a colorful room while black and white rooms might need canvases filled with color. Use various painting tools, such as rollers, small and large brushes, sponges and even hands to experiment with textures and designs. Adorn the walls of a child's room with hand- and footprint-decorated canvases to give the room a personal touch.
Word Art
Using letter stencils allows you to fill canvases with painted words that represent your values, interests and emotions. Paint a canvas in a solid color and stencil on words in contrasting colors once it dries. You might center one word one a canvas, scatter small words around it or position words to create designs. Words written in fine print might form a heart, monogrammed letter or flower. Use word art in a child's room to represent her interests and fill her environment with language.
Object Paintings
Painting realistic objects onto canvases allows decorators to incorporate their favorite things into bedroom decor. You might paint birds, trees or wild flowers on a canvas to give your bedroom a tranquil vibe, or create modern art with bold colors and a pop art style. The existing bedroom decor should influence the direction of your painting. Paint canvases for your child's bedroom using stencils of thematic shapes, such as stars, dinosaurs, flowers and bugs. You can use impressionistic painting techniques to distort designs, leaving room for imagination and imperfections.
Canvas Collage
Strategically arranged painted canvases create a colorful headboard in a bedroom. You might unify the paintings with a cohesive color scheme or even break one large design into several small connecting canvases. Use two large, four medium or several small canvases to line up above your bed as the headboard or position on a large wall as a focal point for the bedroom. You can also collage on canvases with painted objects or photos. For a child's bedroom, let him paint flat wooden shapes from a craft store and collage them onto a canvas.
