This past weekend, I was on a productivity roll. I was magically motivated to clean the whole house (yeah I know, it’s really an apartment), and reorganize, and once I started, I couldn’t stop. The apartment was looking all shiny and clean, but there was something else that was haunting me: The vast amount of blank wall space behind my desk that looms over my shoulder while I work (as you can see in picture numero uno). I finally couldn’t take it anymore and I knew what I must do.

Luckily, being that I am an art student, I have quite a few large canvases that have been half painted and look like poop, that I have yet to repaint (picture 3, though I craftily flipped the badly painted one over so you couldn’t see it). This is mostly because I have no more paint left, and that shiz is expensive. But I still wanted to make use of my canvases, even if only for the time being, and turn them into beautiful white-wall-covering art, all without somehow spending a ton of money.

The fates were favoring me this week though, because while I was wandering around Target the other day, I found this beauty (picture 3): a fun, typographical (yeah I get mad points for that big word), cloth shower curtain. And it was on sale for only $10! Needless to say I snatched it up before anyone else could. I know what you’re thinking: How does a shower curtain help your wall art dilemma? To that I say, patience young padawon, all will be revealed shortly.

So when I got home, I set straight to work. I’m going to try and not go into intense detail, because I think the pictures are pretty self explanatory. Anyways, I took two canvases I had, and applied an ungodly amount of hot glue to the side of one, and forced them together. Why hot glue instead of something more sturdy? Well, I would eventually still like to use them one day, and I should be able to get the glue off of the canvases, as it is very cheap hot glue.

Anyways, I then ironed out my awesome shower curtain, and proceeded to carefully stretch, and pin it around my canvas contraption. I used pins instead of hot glue or a staple gun, because I would also like to still be able to use it later on down the road, but also because I have yet to buy myself a staple gun.

After about twenty minutes, I was done, and ready to hang my master piece up on the wall. (Which I didn’t get to do immediately because I accidentally had the curtain turned the wrong way, so that it only looked good if it was hung vertically, not horizontally like I originally wanted. So I had to take it apart and do it again…) Now, I am protected from the looming white wall behind my desk, and can’t wait to battle the ones that leer at me from the dining room, and my bedroom.

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