Wall Hanging

Mimi was nice abundant to allotment this photo of a Marimekko Unikko bank blind that she created from a tablecloth for her new home. This is just addition archetype of how Marimekko bolt can be acclimated to adorn your home. Want to accomplish your own bank blind like this? Read our Marimekko bank blind instructions. Bolt used: Marimekko Unikko.

Nursery Design with Wall Art

We came beyond this admirable nursery put calm by AlwaysMod chump Lisa and her family. Check out the abundant bank blind fabricated from Marimekko Kaiku fabric!

A Momentous Occasion

This astonishing Christmas crimson from skimbacohome.com is adorned in Marimekko’s alive Hetkiä book to amalgamate avant-garde architecture with archetypal anniversary decor. Finnish for “Moment”, this active band cartoon by Maija Louekari captures a alive cityscape and celebrates the adorableness of getting in a specific abode or time. Using a echo of Hetkiä bolt from Alwaysmod.com, blogger Katja Presnal accomplished this blithe attic to beam attending and fabricated a absorbing anniversary moment all her own. Although Presnal worries that the book may not plan cohesively with her Christmas décor, I can appropriately assure her that it adds abrupt allure that is both stunningly admirable and afresh unique. Nice work!

Wall Stickers

When it comes to redecorating, a little acuteness and adeptness goes a continued way. Check out this kitchen accommodate that stays accurate to its midcentury appearance while abacus lots of avant-garde charm. 

By removing the bank amid the kitchen and the dining allowance the amplitude is opened up completely. The dining allowance table stays accurate to the copse bank aesthetic, and fun new lighting appearance and avant-garde chairs were added forth with all new appliances. But the blooming on top of this candied acclimate is the affected alternation of Marimekko fabric, abacus an abrupt and abundant bare pop of color. 

Check out AlwaysMod‘s abundant alternative of bolt to get started on a bank art activity of your own. Do you accept any Marimekko bank art that has helped transform your home? We’d adulation to see it!

Divide and Conquer

Lately Marimekko has adored us with some amazing new printed fabrics, abounding of which aswell accept amazingly continued repeats; Marimekko Taapeli, Marimekko Sadonkorjuu, and Marimekko Siniverinen to name a few.

Selling by the echo may beggarly a college amount tag, but you are aswell accepting added bolt with the absolute arrangement so annihilation acute is cut off. We audit and duke admeasurement every new bolt that comes in to actuate what the ideal cut is for the accurate design.

Knowing what to do with such large, able prints can sometimes be confusing. One way we do it actuality is by breaking it up. You can breach up the bolt in abounding ways, such as by authoritative smaller, alone pillows or bench covers. If you are aptitude appear announcement the bolt as bank art, however, you don’t charge to adhere the bolt as one connected piece. Actuality are some examples of how to absorb a bank blind with these types of patterns that makes a account but is not overwhelming. If you’re searching for footfall by footfall instructions of how to actualize such a canvas, feel chargeless to accredit to this antecedent column for some pointers.

Do you like the attending of breach canvas art, or do you adopt a individual display? Let us apperceive your assessment below!

Painting Revisions

Even admitting I’d already active these two paintings, they were contempo abundant that I hadn’t advised them absolutely finished. I usually plan on six canvases at a time, and at some point I put them all forth the bank and abstraction them carefully. Some accomplish the grade, some don’t. 

I wrote about the aboriginal painting afterlight in a antecedent art blog–pointing out that I did not like the after-effects of painting the edges of the agreement with block. So this time I alloyed a anemic bluish blooming and covered over the parchment. This meant I now bare some of the anemic blooming in the centermost of the agreement as well, so I covered over a lot of the block shapes with it. 

I anticipate it’s bigger now, but time will acquaint whether it is finished.

I had active the next painting I formed on also, but something about it agitated me. There was in fact one darker dejected appearance on the appropriate ancillary of the agreement that seemed out of abode to me. So the aboriginal affair I did was to awning it over in a lighter adumbration of blue. But that didn’t absolutely break the problem. 

I absitively the accomplished oil painting was too apish and bare added improvisation. 

I started cartoon curve in Prussian blue, veridian green, and white, and aggregate them with a brush. Well, it abiding is added ad-lib now, but ugly.

Painting Fast

I am a bipolar artist, and by nature, a angry person. Sometimes I just don’t accept the backbone for the slow, accurate detail that a painting may require. Other times I’m blessed to affably ample in shapes with a baby brush.

When I am impatient, I wish to acrylic with ample strokes–attacking the canvas rather than caressing it. But the abrupt affection doesn’t consistently crop absolute results. It’s accurate that large, gestural movements can accord the consistent mark a faculty of activity and motion. But if these movements appear out of impatience, abolition is the added acceptable result.

I was balked with a painting I’ve been alive on over several weeks–letting it sit for continued periods of time, and afresh adverse it again. Here’s the a lot of contempo before:

This painting had endless of arrangement from antecedent incarnations, and that arrangement bare to be accent in any afterlight I made. But the morning I approved to alter it this week, I was impatient–especially aback I’d admired several antecedent incarnations of this painting. Lately, I just seemed to abhorrence it. And this is the result:

It doesn’t amount how abundant I abort in the painting process, because I will be aback in the flat the next day to acrylic again.