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EASY ABSTRACT GEOMETRIC ART WITH TAPE TUTORIAL - Quick and Easy Method with Simple Shapes
Jan 15, 2025
This video will show you how to make your own Abstract Geometric Wall Art really easily using tape and acrylic paint. Produce stylish art for your home for very little money yet it will look very expensive.
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hi in this video i'm going to show you
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how to make your own geometric art
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i'm sure you've seen it in lots of
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different places it's really really
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popular at the moment
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but actually it's really easy to make
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because it's all just based on geometric
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shapes no great artistic ability needed
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so how about getting started with your
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own
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i'm christine of christinescrafts.com
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and this channel is dedicated to
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crafting on a budget
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so what are you going to need to make
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your own you're going to need a canvas
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i'm using a small
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8 inch square one but you can use
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whatever size you like
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some paint i'm using acrylic paint
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because i found this works really well
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on the canvas
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so stick with an acrylic you're going to
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need
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a paintbrush and somewhere for your
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paints i've just got a little palette
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for mine it doesn't matter what you put
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it on
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and you're going to need some masking
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tape or decorators tape
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and some scissors so you can cut it down
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to length although to be honest you can
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usually just tear it but you might want
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some nice neat edges
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so we're going to start by using that
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tape
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to mark up our design so just decide how
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you want yours to look or make it up as
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you go along
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perhaps you want to copy one you've seen
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somewhere but what you're going to do is
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i've decided a triangle at this end
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so you place a piece of tape over making
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sure
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both ends are long enough to wrap right
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around the canvas to the back
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because remember when you hang a canvas
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on the wall like this you can see the
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sides so it's
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really important they're done as well
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smooth it down
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wrap it around the back and make sure
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you get it
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all the way over right onto that back
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face
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and that's it you've marked up the first
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section you're going to paint
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it's really important that your tape is
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down nice and flat
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it needs to be smooth with no ridges at
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all
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and it's worth running along all those
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edges
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really carefully i've found a fingernail
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is a good idea
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just to run along those edges and make
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sure when you go over the edge of your
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canvas
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it's nice and tight on there the last
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thing you want is the paint getting
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under your tape
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now you're going to find when you watch
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this video all the way through
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i had a bit of trouble because i was
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filming it i didn't take enough care
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and enough time smoothing down my tape
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so you will see the problems that arise
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if you don't take enough time
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so i can't stress enough take plenty of
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time to smooth them down
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the canvas you saw at the beginning and
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i will show you again at the end
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is one i did for my blog so i took
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photos as i was doing that one
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did it in exactly the same way it just
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took more time
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and it worked perfectly so as you can
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see
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i've added another tape and you can see
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where they're crossing over
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i decided to trim the end you don't have
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to you can leave the crossover it's
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whatever you're looking for in your
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design
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so i've set myself up two triangles on
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those top corners
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i'm looking at the rest of it and
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thinking now what do i want to do
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or maybe i don't want it all to be
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triangles
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so i'm going to this time start on one
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of the tapes i've already got
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and just run it down from there to the
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bottom
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there's no problem with having tapes
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coming up to other ones it depends on
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what you're
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you're aiming for in your design but the
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same rules apply
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nice and smooth work on those edges
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wrap it around the end smooth it down
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really well
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now you'll see and you'll think well
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she's smoothing it quite a lot but it
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wasn't enough
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so please do make sure you get your
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edges nice and and
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flat because you get a nice crisp edge
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on your artwork
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i still think that's a little bit too
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large for those areas
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so i think i'm going to go there
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you see you can pull your tape across
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you can try it out you're not committed
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to anything
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you can see i've just decided to get it
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right to that corner
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right to the end of that tape and right
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to the corner
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and that's going to give me the effect
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i'm looking for it's entirely up to you
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going right to a corner like that it's
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quite nice you do get a certain effect
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and if you're looking closely at that
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tape now in the middle you're going to
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see a little crease
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this is the problem with filming
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sometimes don't take enough time
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and that's going to cause me a problem
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in a bit so i've tried to smooth it out
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and i'm still being careful to wrap
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around the end now because i've come to
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the end there's a little bit of tape
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sticking out
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i'll just trim that off
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okay just trim that off so that it fits
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flat on the end because that's the
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effect i'm going for i want the paint to
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come right up to the end
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but not to go around the corner
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smooth this one down
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i'm going to allow them to cross over
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which will give me a slightly different
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effect on the end
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and now the question is am i happy with
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it do i need any more
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or am i going to leave it like that
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so i think those areas are a little bit
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too big so let's put another piece of
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tape on
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i'm just going to go from one to the
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other
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so long as the end of the tape is above
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the other tape
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that will work absolutely fine
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nice and smooth so it really is a case
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of
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smoothing everything down really
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carefully now to make sure no paint can
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get underneath
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and to think about paint i've done mine
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all one color
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obviously you can use as many different
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colors as you like this is your design
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this is where you can get even more
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creative maybe you've already penciled
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this out maybe you already know what
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colors
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so make sure they're all smooth
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and then get yourself set up for your
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paint so you're going to need your
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acrylic paint
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and you're going to need something to
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pop it in it's you can just use a saucer
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or a little plastic tray it doesn't
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matter
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and then start painting now the key here
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is to be really careful and
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to run along your tapes every time you
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go
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up to the tape you risk pushing the
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paint underneath so try and paint along
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the tape
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now obviously where one take meets
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another there's going to be a little bit
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of
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pushing the brush up against the tape
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but just do as little of that as you can
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and work your way around fill in one
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space and then another
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obviously i've sped this up you can take
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your time
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see that i'm just working steadily
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keeping away
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from the tape it doesn't matter if some
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of your paint goes on the tape because
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you're going to take that off
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and just fill each section at the moment
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i'm just working
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up to the edge and not worrying about
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going around the corner
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just getting a covering on the top
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to fill this space
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and then the final space i'm not going
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to paint all of it on the top because
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i'm going to use it to be able to move
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my
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canvas so i'll leave a little bit in the
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corner
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unpainted so that i can move it without
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getting covered in paint that's the last
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thing i want
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okay so now i'm going to think about the
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edges
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and to paint those i'm going to need to
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put something underneath the canvas
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i'm going to use these four little
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plastic boxes just because i've got them
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and they fit nicely under the canvas and
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help stop it moving around
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but you just need something to raise it
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up off your work surface
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and then you're going to paint the edges
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again just work nicely along the edge
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you can see where you need to go go from
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one tape to the other
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and then once you've filled that side do
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just look at the top and make sure it
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still looks okay you don't want a ridge
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of paint running along the edge
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so you'll see as i work along i'm
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working on the side and i'm also working
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on the top
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i'm constantly looking at the top and
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thinking i'll put a bit more paint there
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oh i need to tidy up the edge you just
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keep working your way
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you're trying to cover the whole of the
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edge of the canvas apart from where the
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tape is
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so that it's all ready to hang once it's
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all dry
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may also decide once all your paint has
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dried that it's not really thick enough
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so don't be afraid to let it all dry and
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then come back and add some more to
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thicken up the depth of colour
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as you can see just getting around to
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that that last corner now
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i've just decided to add a bit more in
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the middle because i've been adding some
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to the edge sections
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final turn last edge
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you'll see it moves a little bit but i
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was able to just pop it back with the
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brush
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and finish it off and then just leave it
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to dry
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and make sure you let your paint get
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completely dry
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and all the coats on it you want and
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that you've completely finished painting
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before you move on to the next step
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okay can't stress that enough make sure
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it's all completely dry
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before you worry about the next step
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so the next step is remove your tape
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so you're going to have to have a look
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and look for the last piece of tape you
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put on
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and take that one off first so that
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there's nothing overlapping it
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and as you can see you get a beautiful
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straight edge
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and that effect you're looking for so
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you just have to keep looking for the
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next one down and the next one down
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and peel them off now you'll start to
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see here where i haven't got the edges
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down really smooth
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there's a little bit of bleed of paint
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underneath but you can avoid that quite
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easily
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and just take another one
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up there's one on the top of it so then
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i realized i need to take that one first
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and then that's it all the tapes off and
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you've completed your piece of art
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now as you can see mine's not perfect
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but you could always go along it with
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some white paint
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and tidy that up if you're really
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careful with your painting and really
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careful with getting the edge of the
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tape down
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it should work beautifully and be
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perfect just like the orange one
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so good luck with doing your artwork and
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i hope you enjoy
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the process i actually found it really
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relaxing and you can end up with some
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very expensive looking art to go on your
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wall
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for really very little expense so thank
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