shot-thru-the-art:

a dusky teal room painted with pale skeleton trees. there is a bed with a whote upholstered headboard and a white coverlet. a white crown is mounted on the wall above the headboard and tulle cascades down behind and around the headboard. there are 2 small bedside stands on either side and each has a glass Turkish lamp. the room is small but there is a window letting in some light ALT

I painted our guest room in winter ’21/’22. It took about 3 months and at least 5 audiobooks.

Trees are the best because as long as you taper your strokes you can’t really make a mistake. I didn’t have to bother with sketches or planning.

same room but with a lamp turned on casting a warm glow in the dark forest. it is night time ALT
same room at night zoomed out ALT

Here are the Behr paints I used (but I didn’t end up using Dragonfly):

hand holding behr paint sample cards: melting moment, fresh tone, green meets blue, dragonfly. it's a gradient of muted tealsALT

Some progress shots:

progress photo with more trees ALT
progress picture. there are only 2 trees on the wall and a stepladder is set upALT

The canopy crown for the bed was black but I painted it and then detailed it with a sharpie to make it match the “distressed” white end tables.

black canopy crown half painted white. a hand holds a paintbrush ALT

I’ve since learned more about trees and realized that a real forest would be more straight trunks and less tangly branches but I regret nothing because the tangles were the most fun to paint.

another progress pic but there are many more trees, including on the trim ALT

🎶Into the woods!🎶

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