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DIY Canvas Art

An easy tutorial for creating DIY canvas art for your home for any season or holiday!

Keyword Crafts, Printable, Tutorial, Wall Art
Prep Time 15 minutes
Dry Time 30 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Author Kristen | Ella Claire & Co.

Ingredients

  • 1 art print any size or design
  • 1 artist canvas the same size or slightly larger than your print
  • matte Mod Podge
  • craft paint
  • 2 paint brushes

Instructions

Step One: Prepare Artwork

  1. Have your artwork printed at a copy place. The carefully cut out your print. Set aside while you tackle the next step. 

Step Two: Paint Canvas 

  1. You can paint the entire canvas if you want, but I choose to just paint the edges that are showing. Why waste paint and time? Be sure to paint the sides of the canvas as well.

Step Three: Mod Podge

  1. Follow the instructions on the container of Mod Podge to adhere the art print to the canvas. I just adhered the print with the mod podge from left to right instead of trying to do the whole thing at once. Be sure to remove air bubbles as much as possible as you go. It doesn't have to be perfect! Be careful if you choose to mod podge over the top of the print. Some forms of printing will produce an ink that will smear. I chose to only do the backside of this print, but have done the frontside many other times before.