Silhouette ‘Birds in a Tree’ Wall Art Part 2

So earlier this week we covered Part One of the Silhouette ‘Birds in a Tree’ Wall Art project. Now I am going to cover Part Two!

SUPPLIES:

• 2 Canvases
• A Pencil
• A Paint Brush
• A Bottle of Black Acrylic Paint
• Pictures of Birds
• X-Acto Knife

DIRECTIONS:

1) Find photos of birds sitting in a tree. You can find the photos on the internet and print them out or do what I did which was buy a bird book (Half Price Books again) and cut the images out that way. The birds need to be the size and shape that you want on your canvas because these will be the stencil for the silhouettes on your tree branches. They also need to be photos of perched birds, not ones in flight. I found a few I liked in a book. Now, cut them out with the X-Acto Knife very carefully and along the outer edges of the whole bird and set them aside.

2) Take your canvas and free hand branches of a tree. Be sure to incorporate branches from one canvas to the next. Make it as compact or thin branch-wise that you'd like.

Here is what mine looked like...

3) Grab the cut out bird stencils you made and place as many as you want on any branch and trace them with your pencil.

4) Paint! Now it is time to fill in your outlines with solid black paint! Mine required two coats.

You're done!! Here is how mine turned out!...

I love it! and I have even had a few requests from friends to make them for their apartments or houses! Easy and fun! Hope you enjoyed the project too!

Did you use as many birds or tree limbs? What did/would you do different?