Deer Antler Art

My boyfriend really wanted me to craft something for his house. Considering that at this point- the house was mostly empty. I wasn't really sure what to do. But, I decided on this antler art for him. I would have rather redone furniture, but with so many rooms that still need stuff narrowing it down would have been pretty hard.

I started with three black and white antlers. I purchased the canvas on sale at Michael's. I used a permanent marker on the canvas for the antler image. I considered painting it- and if I was going to have more time to turn it around I might have done that. But I did not want to wait for that to dry. However, I didn't want to leave them black and white.  And, yes, I am crafting on top of a TV box. My boyfriend got me a new TV for Christmas  and I haven't thrown it out because it is such a good painting and crafting surface.

So, I created a mixture of paint and water to tone down the white a little bit.

This is about as good of a picture of the mixture that I could get.  I used three different craft paint colors and added some water.  I put the paint on and I was just going to use a dry brush, but I didn't like that finish. So I ended up using paper towels to remove some of the paint.

Here is the finished product.