Art can be expensive, especially art large enough to fill up big blank walls. Luckily for those of us with much more time than money, it is very easy to create art yourself that looks great and won't break the bank. Best of all, even if you think you don't have an artistic bone if your body you can still create some pretty beautiful pieces with a little creativity and the some basic materials. Here are 10 great looking wall art ideas from around the web that are simple enough that anyone can do, no matter your artistic ability.
First Row:
1. Weekend Art Project from The New Domestic
2. Intersecting Circles Wall Art Tutorial from Two Girls Being Crafty
3. Wooden Shim Wall Art from Under the Table and Dreaming
4. Paint Chip Art from Angela La Dawn
5. No Paint Artwork in 15 Minutes from Make Under My Life
Second Row:
6. DIY Wall Art from Office Supplies from How About Orange
7. Potato Print Art Work DIY from Oh Happy Day
8. Paper Silhouette Art from Time Out New York
9. DIY Gold Chevron Paintings from Make Under My Life
10. Canvas Map Wall Decor from Little Birdie Secrets
Images: As linked above
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Comments (15)
Sounds like a good Saturday project, may even invite people over to work together.
Is the first photo from Eddie Van Halen's house?
Love the paint chip art! Unlike the Marilyn Monroe in paint-chip-pixels, I might actually be able to do that.
Thanks for these ways to add pretty color and pattern using little horizontal space.
I like the color and the design but there is something about the modge podge on top of it that is sort of cheaping it.
Yes that Marilyn Monroe pixel art did look like a complete nightmare to make.
I love art project number one and I check out the others who made something similar. I really want to make this but I live in Argentina and I don't know if I could find 1/4 inch painter's tape. boo hoo.
From project four I really like the triangular orange paint chips. Need to make that too.
Great, simple ways to spruce a room! Thanks.
I've found that Dover vintage clip art/illustrations make for great DIY/CHEAP art around the house, especially any from the Harter series. My favorite is this one: http://store.doverpublications.com/0486236595.html
Don't let the cover fool you! Some great simple, vintage imagery is inside.
Simply scan and print. I've printed mine on thick watercolor paper, they're suspended from a long strand of dried and braided witches hair lichen, attached with old clothes pins. Sounds crazy, but it looks AWESOME.
Those wood blocks look so tasty and textural. The map project is pretty sick too, I'd space them out a little more myself though.
I love these ideas - art can be a great way to add color to a space and show off your own point of view. I love using my own photographs to make easy and affordable wall art.
http://gildedlilypad.blogspot.com/2011/07/make-your-own-art.html
Lily
The Gilded Lilypad
Some of these would be just as effective if they were graphic fabrics stretched like canvases over stretcher bars.
Great ideas!
I can say the photo frame wall art is the best one in all. It really gives a royal look and feel but very simple method of arrangement. Yet it is easy to try.