Working on the Boys Room - The Dino Silhouette

A big part of making the boys room special, was having some fun working on a couple projects that we made from scratch!  I'm really proud of the way our dinosaur painting came together.  And the best part is, it was not near as time consuming as it may appear like it would be...

Here are some photos of the steps we took to accomplish this project/artwork!!

We purchased 2 8ft shelving boards and had them cut into 4ft sections.  

Using wood glue and two 1x2in strips across the back, we drilled all four boards together.

 Once the glue was dried, we used a bag of screws to distress the wood a bit further.  We knew we were going to do a crackle paint finish, so after distressing, we painted our green undercoat.

After the green, we followed the directions on the crackle solution.  You brush one consistent coat of the crackle solution overtop the green coat and wait at least one hour before painting the topcoat  We chose a cream for the topcoat. 

Jeremy has a program at work that enabled him to paste a silhouette image into it, blow it up and then he used the plotter at work to print out a large sheet. 

We did 2 trial sizes before finding the right one!  This is the smaller...

And the bigger one....

After tracing the silhouette with a pencil, we filled it in using small artist paint brushes.  We did two imperfect coats.

It's final destination was above the boys changer/dresser!  Jeremy used 4 screws and drilled it directly into the studs on our wall.  It was really heavy and this helped us feel confident that it would stay where we put it!  We are definitely happy with the finished product!