The girls came over as planned Friday which they had off and we started our cave art project. Tara was worried that maybe this would be a hindrance to selling it in the future. If a potential buyer ever says that I will tell them buy a quart of paint and have at it!
The first step was to lightly sand the areas to remove anything shiny. Then wipe it down and tape it. I had bought some cave drawing art from Etsy. 16 pieces for $15 which I thought was a great deal! They were all copies of the actual drawings in the french caves!
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| Cracks and my "tribal hand". We later added Tara and the girl's print |
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| Kaity starting her painting. Gee, most folks get mad if kids paint on the walls. |
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| Bri starting her wall |
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| Big sister helping |
I did the first paint step which was to paint in wall cracks. Then we arranged our templates into interesting scenes. Once they were applied we painted around them, stippling 4 different colors of paint to try and get the cave wall effect. My favorite figure is the mammoth!
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| Wall so far with mammoth, it will be carried down to the floor |
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| Left wall so far, still need to add tribal hands |
Our last step was to put up our "tribal hands" print. I would like to include all family members eventually on our "tribe" wall. The ones the ancient peoples did were fabulous and I wonder how they got theirs so perfect! Maybe when that scene is done it will look nearly as good, hope so.
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| Cave art from the original masters |
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| Tribal hands |
In order to keep the cave theme I REALLY want the T-Rex they have for sale at Home Depot! It was love at first sight. I may have to wait for a used one though as Tara informed me all the Halloween stuff is put away! What's up with that? It's not even Halloween yet! But anyway I could use him year round. After all nothing says Christmas like a 9 foot T-Rex wearing a Santa Hat.
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