Put a Pin in it

I'm sure you haven't caught on yet but...I like birds.

Please - if you haven't seen it yet - look up Portlandia, Put a Bird on It on YouTube. Every time I see bird art now, I can't help but belly laugh! You will see.

This was long before I had seen that glorious clip, but I probably still would've made this either way. I work in a hotel and my front desk desperately needed a cork board to post notes, phone numbers, etc. I was assigned to the task, and of course did not refuse. I get to paint and get paid for it?? Okay!!

Most major office stores have cork boards. These particular ones were sold in a set of 4 at Office Max. A couple of the designs I found on Google, and a couple were just simple bird images. I used the same black acrylic paint that I mentioned in the faux wall decal posts, and after I sketched the images onto the boards, I used the backside of the paint brush to line the outside edges of the sketches. These required a thicker layer of paint as cork boards are porous. I used scrapbook pearls to create the white beads in the flowers, as well as black beads for the eyes of the birds. Finally, I cut two of the cork boards into fours, and hung them in the back wall of the front desk office. Hopefully they don't hire anyone who has a fear of birds.

Craft on, little birdies