Recycle

My sisters 23rd birthday is coming up next week, so I thought it'd be appropriate to make her something. I had an old painting that was lying around which I didn't care much for, so I thought "hey, why not take it and make it into something better?"

This is what I came up with. And for the record, the quote is from this hilarious show called "Bob's Burgers." 

I started out with this. It's acrylic: 

I then went on Microsoft word and since my printer was broken, I decided to painstakingly trace over ever letter of helvetica on the computer screen onto prices of paper to cut out. Then because I'm a diligent little shit, I continued to tape down every one of these little suckers. 

I took white acrylic and painted over the taped down letters. The purpose of this was so that once it dried, I could pull up the paper cut outs and that would leave the unprinted painting behind.

My original plan was to stop here, but something didnt feel right. I didn't really like how to came out- it was missing something. I sat around and listened to my painting- I slapped on some red, and I'm glad I did.