I carry your heart with me

I've been redecorating my room for the past couple weeks now and I really love how it's coming together, but (there's always a but) there was something missing. I'm usually not crazy about hanging things on the wall, I like clean, simple, classic. However, I've been seeing a few cool paintings on pinterest that I've been loving; like this one.

I had two left over canvas's from a painting I did for Hunter a couple years ago- and finally I had a use for them. OH YEAAAHH.

I wasn't sure what I wanted to paint on them, song lyrics, a quote, a poem, so I was sitting at my desk deep in thought (eh, debatable) and I saw this picture of my mom I just put up the other day:

I love this picture of her from her wedding day.

Then the little hamster in my head started goin', I was definitely going to do one of my favorite poems by E.E. Cummings,  "I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)"

I couldn't fit the last stanza but that's okay I still absolutely adore it. Here it is with one coat (well partially):

A few tips I picked up:

• Prime the canvases with a white acrylic paint/water mix (lightly)
• Do your first coat of the words VERY lightly, it is insanely easier this way
• Don't worry if it's not perfect, that's what makes it beautiful (yeah, I'm that corny)

Anyways-

Here's the a few pictures of the final outcome:

Perfectly Imperfect? Just how I like it.

xox

Marisa