Blooming Art

Avoid the hassle of mixing colors – instead, use the shortcut of paint chips to achieve the desired effect of a rainbow.

Photo Courtesy of Kelleigh Hogan

Paint chips offer endless possibilities for color, making them perfect for any art you want to do involving color.

Kelleigh Hogan, Editor-in-Chief
June 26, 2015

One of the most frustrating parts of art is the range of colors available: you never seem to have enough colors. I have encountered such an issue countless times when trying make a colorful painting and my ability to blend colors seem to fail me. However, this project gives us the solution: paint chips. In this project, images will be cut out of the paint chips and glued on the canvas, making artwork that screams color.

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Materials:

  • Canvas
  • Paint chips
  • Punch-out
  • Hot glue
  • Pencil
  • Ruler
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Photo Courtesy of Kelleigh Hogan
First, create a grid for your artwork by determining how far apart your shapes should be. Cut some shapes using the punch-out out of printer paper and test different distances. Make marks on the edge of your canvas at the increment you decided. You may have to add a little more distance to the bottom or top of the canvas to center it.