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.

Nice ideas. The "no paint art" with the wire wrapped around the panels is really cool - great textures. Kind of reminds me of things like these: http://www.roommatespeelandstick.com/walldecals/damask-wall-decals.aspx

Except with added 3D pop.

am i the only one who is tried of the birds on the phone line motif? it is ubiquitous at this point. cute but ubiquitous. m

I think those are leaves, not birds, in no. 5.

@MESO, I too am bored with the birds.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHmLljk2t8M

@DUANE HILL
Yes, but are you prepared for...FROGS ON A LOG!!!!!!!!!

I don't consider myself artistic in the least, but I made these prints over the weekend that turned out way beyond my expectations. The supplies cost less than $20 total, and make a ton of prints. It was so much fun to frame and hang them and say "I made that!"

I love these ideas!! I can't wait to try making some of my own art now.

I hate to rant but I can't stop myself from doing so at the moment.

While these prints are not bad, I hate calling them art. Craft prints perhaps, but not art, as they're formulaic.

Less so these, but very much so what I've seen on, say HGTV, seem to ignore all what goes into true abrstract art. It borders mockery of artists who work tirelessly to produce work of depth and quality.

Rant over. Thanks.

I agree that these are not necessarily art. But they are a splash of color and excitement for a space, and that's what is important! I think another great option is making a piece out of one (or a few!) textiles!

You can buy cheap textile remnants and make something super colorful and funky from them. This Alexander Girard striped textile from Etsy would be awesome!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/104527186/maharam-alexander-girard-toostripe-001