If you look to your left, in the "Meet Maxine" sidebar, you'll see I've listed myself as a DIY junkie. That is no understatement. Partially have to thank my mom for this knack that I have. She's a "make-it-youself" kind of gal, and thank goodness I didn't get my artistic skill from my dad.
My current obsession of nautical paintings is this four canvas set by Etsy shop Color On the Walls. Talk about cute!
I really love the way that a good painted canvas looks in a room. Currently I have four and soon to be eight hanging on my walls. It's an obsession, I know. The two main places I get inspiration for my art are Etsy and Pinterest. Etsy is great because it's a place filled with handmade things that are often easily recreated. Pinterest is a little more difficult because some of the boards may be called DIY or Crafts, but lets be honest, I don't plan on making my on bookshelf out of crates any time soon. I'm always drawn to a certain theme of painting: the ocean.
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Here is my Lilly Pulitzer sailboat print inspired painting (topped of with a sweet monogram). Pretty close right? For the closest replication I looked up other paintings that people had done of this print. The number or sorority paddles painted like this are unlimited so, it wasn't hard for this one.
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So from your research you just pick and choose what you want to put into yours! Next, I recreated a Pinterest favorite: the three piece whale.
Hands down the easiest to make and it just looks so clean! Inspiration for this one was easy to come across, it's all over Pinterest;
Like this one...
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If I could go back in time and do a step by step of how I painted these, I would. But alas that is not how time works. Hopefully these will suffice.
