Hello!! Today I'm going to show you how to recreate your very own chevron canvas! These are relatively easy to make, considering how cute they are!
Here's what you need:
1) Canvas~ this can be the size of your choice~ I had a 18 inch by 14 inch canvas
2) Acrylic Paint of the color of your choice (I chose navy)
3) Foam Paintbrush
4) Small Paintbrush
5) Painter's Tape
6) Scissors
7) Newspaper
8) Pencil
9) Ruler
1) Measure out your canvas if not already measured out for you in the packaging, both horizontally and vertically and file that away in your brain.
2) Divide both of those measurements by two and make a line where each falls lightly with a pencil and a ruler. Make sure that you really do take notice in how hard you press while making your mark because pencil doesn't erase well on canvas.
3) Next, divide these halves, well, in half. (Refer to the picture.)
4) Now, you should have a 4x4 grid featured on your canvas. I opted for smaller, more condensed chevron, so I proceeded to divide everything in half, again! This then came out to be a 8x8 grid. If you want bigger chevron, I suggest that you stick with the 4x4 grid.
5) If you want your chevron to face a certain way (horizontally and vertically), this is the time and place when you want to move your canvas in that direction.
6) We are actually starting the chevron! I like my chevron to start at the bottom instead if the top, but, once again, your preference. I made my diagonal lines starting from the bottom left hand corner going to the top right hand corner. If you like the other look, make yours the opposite way.
7) You are going to want to repeat the process of making the same kind of diagonal lines on every other column (up and down, not side to side) of your canvas. Refer to the picture below.
8) Now, instead of making diagonal lines from the bottom left hand corner to the top right hand corner, for instance, you are now going to make your diagonal lines from the top left hand corner to the bottom right hand corner (basically so it makes some chevron!). You will want to do this on any remaining squares.
9) Cue the Church bells~ we have ourselves some chevron! Once you figure out where you want your chevron to begin, you can tape! But wait, there's another step!
10) If you are using a light paint color, I suggest that you erase your lines where you will be painting. For me, this wasn't really a huge concern because I used a dark color (navy). I would also recommend erasing the lines where the white will be before you paint so that it's less of a hassle and easier to touch up later.
11) Taping was probably the most tedious process in this entire project because tape and I just don't agree. Make sure when you're taping, you're alternating every other chevron line so that you don't end up painting the entire canvas. Also, make sure you mark where you are going to be painting, that could be detrimental otherwise. If you don't want the sides of your canvas to be painted, make sure that you tape them off for a clean edge.
12) Now for the simplest part of the entire process, painting! I used a foam brush for most of the painting, and used a small, dense brush for near the tape edges.
13) I removed the tape when the second coat (and a couple touchups afterwards) dried. I didn't have a problem when I was removing the tape on the canvas, which was a pleasant surprise!
14) Since my lovely tape work wasn't the finest, I used some white paint and my small dense paintbrush for some touchups.
15) The next day, I erased any leftover pencil marks to get the final product! Voila!!
I hope you enjoyed learning how to make this DIY chevron canvas! Until next time!
XoXo~ Megan :)
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