My living room has been a slow work in progress ever since we moved in to this house seven years ago. We've experimented with a few different rugs, replaced old furniture, added a new (old) chandelier, painted the walls white, and I've tweaked and shifted things around almost daily.
(That's one of my gifts weaknesses--don't judge!)
I recently redesigned the one big boring
wall in the room by creating a gallery wall of original art. Four of the
paintings are mine (three oil and one watercolor) and one painting I
bought on ebay.
The composition of the paintings on the wall was tough to figure out.
After lots of unsuccessful experimenting with the four oil paintings, I
realized I needed one more little one, so I rummaged around in my stash
and found the watercolor which I had painted years ago.
I traced the shape of each frame on brown packing paper and cut them out
to use as templates on the wall.
Once I decided on the composition, I
taped them up to make sure I liked how they were centered and how they
filled the space. Then Scott and I hung the frames with a few minor adjustments and came up with this ~
The painting on the top left is the watercolor I painted in college. It's a landscape from a photo I took in the mountains outside of Quito, Equador. The top middle is an oil I did a few months ago from a shot I took this summer while we were vacationing on the
Oregon coast. The painting on the top right was done in college as well, a study of a Van Gogh. I painted the one on the bottom right a few years ago for an
art show at our church.
They are tied together through color and theme, but vary a bit in style. I like gallery walls that are more random, too, but I'm loving the repeated green fields and ocean imagery in this collection.
I think it brightens up the room, and the added height and gold accents relate to the chandelier and make the room feel a little bigger to me.
