Title: Our Baby's Dr. Seussery
Name: Jeremy
Time: 1 Week
Cost: Under $100
Long live Thing One and Thing Two! Click above for pics, below for the how-to and be sure to give Jeremy a THUMBS UP if you find this project helpful....
How To: Make a "Seussery"
Jeremy's February Jumpstart Project 2009
Name: Jeremy
Time: 1 Week
Cost: Under $100
Tools: Mostly paints, the only thing that is new in the room is the crib and the area rug. i based all of my paintings on a Dr. Seuss collection book
Steps: Being an older house, we had to start with removing all of the wallpaper, then priming and painting the walls "true blue".. then i started sketching the pictures on the wall, then painted them with toll paints, applied a clearcoat, and that was it.
Resources: Not really, like i said, it's mostly comprised of things we already had.
Give Jeremy a THUMBS UP if you find this project helpful....
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Great work, it's beautiful!
view kimmiller's profile
What a great idea! But where's the Lorax? :)
view idoprint's profile
Great work on the wall! I've been adding elements of Seuss in my son's room lately but nothing that nice.
But two persnickety things: The rug doesn't match with the style/colors of the room and the crib needs to be pulled from wall with the window to line up with the rug.
view Megan in AZ's profile
I vote for the Lorax too!
view prairie girl's profile
This looks great, but I think I'm missing the how-to part. Or is this just a person with natural artistic talent sketching a cool Dr. Seuss design on the wall?
If so, it's cool, but it's not necessarily a repeatable how-to.
view heather77's profile
Definitely repeatable with common sense if you can buy or borrow a Projecta-Scope (around $30). You just set it over your art, and it projects the art onto the wall. I lent mine to a friend a few years ago so that she could paint a Velvet Underground banana on a wall in her house... all it required was basic tracing skills.
http://www.dharmatrading.com/proj.html
That's one link, but plenty of places sell it; mine was bought in the art department of a Michaels craft store some time in the last decade.
view Miranda's profile
Thanks for sharing this how-to!
Also, thanks to Miranda for sharing the projectascope. I'd never heard of that until now.
view ravenovertheway's profile
Dr. Seuss is my hero! I taught my little sis to read using his books. Love the colors and you did an incredible job with replicating the images from the book. Well done!
view housefulloffur's profile
Now get to Pottery Barn for the Seuss bedding. Awesome job. Pretty sure I can't do it, but I liked looking at it.
view vacuumqueen's profile
aww!! so cute!!
like stated above though, this could really use some plumping up in the how-to aspect. and the rug thing. but the walls and cot are so adorable!!
view auddie's profile