Before and After

Going to goodwill can be so much fun sometimes; you just never know what you will find!  It's especially fun on half price day!   A few weeks ago we went, I can't remember for sure what we were actually searching for but I spotted this from far away (I mean how could you not see it the thing is HUGE!)

Oh how I had to have it!  This Canvas is a whopping 3ftx4ft!  And the price?  A STEAL at $5!!!!  How could I pass it up?  I wasn't completely sure what I wanted to do with it at the time, but for $5, who cares!!!  

I did finally decide to try something out and that began with painting over the whole thing in black (Adam was quite upset about this because he was quite taken with the original painting)

Originally I just did the edges, but decided you might be able to see through to the other colors so just did the whole thing to be safe.

This little guy supervised.

And here is what I ended up with!! 

I'm not gonna lie, I like it but I don't LOVE it.   I think it might be the fact that everything around it is brownish.  I thought about trying to antique the paper but I am pretty sure that would have been disaster.   So in case anyone is wondering how I actually did this, its some music I got off the web, edited in Photoshop and then blown up as an engineering print at staples ($7.50).  Then I used spray adhesive to put it on the canvas and modge podge over the whole thing.  The modge podge actually didn't work out the best, there are some definite wrinkles and the paper tore in a couple spots.  From far away you can't really tell, but they are there and I know it!   It's not too bad though for a giant piece of 'art' that cost less than $15.  I might just need to find somewhere else to put it (though this spot fits perfectly and I don't know where else in my house a giant 3ft by 4ft piece would fit!)