Drift Wood Decor - Painted Birds

A couple years ago, Bass and his brother took a trip to a family cottage in Northern Maine. It was where they had spent summers as kids and where they have lots of great family memories. They spent time hanging out, canoeing and boating on the lake, and enjoying some down time. On one of their canoe outings, Bass found this piece of wood and ended up bringing it home. It sat in the garage for ever since neither of us had any specific ideas for it. Then it came to me. It would be perfect in the kitchen above the sink.

I'm not really much of a artist so I found some clip art online that I liked and then I used that as a guide to sort of free-hand the design onto the board with pencil. Once I got it the way I liked it, I painted it in with black acrylic craft paint. Then it just sat and sat in my decor closet until we finally painted the kitchen this spring. I was right---it does work perfectly above the sink.

You can even see a sneak peek of the new kitchen color scheme. Reveal coming soon! Until then, here's one more shot of our Maine board birds. :)

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