Fresh Walls: Build a Gallery Wall

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Gallery walls are such a great way to display your treasures. It is a neat and fun way to share the things that you are interested in and it will certainly communicate your personality to the observer. We have been seeing so many gorgeous wall galleries on hgtv, West Elm, and Lauren Conrad’s home. They gave us great inspiration for our dream wall gallery.

We were able to get great tips from Lauren Conrad’s recent article, Home Makeover: How to Build a Gallery Wall. “…Choose pieces that have a common thread—a certain color for example,” team LC writes. We chose pink! Plus a tad bit of gold here and there. We used gorgeous prints from  Jessica Illustration , CraftMei, and our AngyPaints originals. This tip certainly helped bring every art piece together. Another great tip: “the key is making sure you start with a couple of larger pieces to anchor the wall.” We took her advice and placed the largest frame first! We used our original watercolor painting, “Flamingo Love”. Then we worked around this piece adding smaller and medium sized frames to create a slanted diamond shape. We love the end result. What do you think?

We love all the great ideas and the how to build a gallery wall tutorials on the web! We are also excited to add super unique items that will personalize your wall space even more! Check out these gorgeous Etsy picks to create a fresh and one of a kind gallery wall.

 

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Courtesy Pamela Rose

 

Dream Catcher: This lovely turquoise dream catcher will not only take your bad dreams away, but it will definitely make your walls pop! The addition of beautiful peacock feathers are what makes this dream catcher special.

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Courtesy Barb Corley, The Urban Otter Shop

Wooden Art Panel: This rustic wooden wall art of a dandelion is carefully handmade and ready to hang on your gallery wall. The rustic look is totally in right now so what is not to love about this item! Plus you can stare at this beauty and make as many wishes as you desire. 🙂

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Courtesy Lourds

Embroidery Art: This is certainly a one of a kind art piece that you can hang anywhere. The geometric patterns will add a lot of edge to your gallery wall.

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Courtesy Julie Benningfield

 Decorative branches: This beautiful Manzanita tree branch decor will accentuate gold frames or gold paintings perfectly, making your wall space stand out!

 

Do you have any other unique items or ideas for a gallery wall?

~AngyPaints

 

 

 

 

Blue Beauty Watercolor Painting

Blue Beauty Watercolor Painting

Hey loves, I hope that you are having a wonderful Monday. Here is my latest watercolor painting Blue Beauty.
Purchase the original at the link below:
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“You Hold the Key” Robin Bird Watercolor Painting

This is my latest watercolor painting from my collection. I was experimenting with a different technique that I discovered while painting. I really like how it turned out. I like mixing abstract features to realism, I think it adds distinctive features to the painting.

I am fascinated with painting different kinds of birds. I have always enjoyed their presence. Below is a painting of a robin sitting on a branch. There is also a skeleton key hanging from a red ribbon.

I am also fascinated with antiques. I feel that there is much more detail and care that was taken into creating things back in the day. Now many things can be reduced by machines and the originality is not present as often. When it is made manually it has more distinct features and it is much more original. This is why i chose to add an antique key. The key can represent many things. It can symbolize, any new opportunities and discoveries in all kinds of areas such, as spiritual, knowledge, relationships, anything else that your dreams desire.

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I hope you like it! It measures 11×15 inches and it is painted on thick Strathmore Fine Art cold press paper.

This painting is available for sale. Please contact me at andrea@andrearealpe.com for inquiries:)

This is a photo to show you how it may look on the wall.