Fun with Paint

Our last visit to Belgium really was spent hanging around our friends’ house for a week or so. They’d just moved in five days before we arrived. They needed time to unpack/get organized, and we said we could help while we were there. I volunteered to serve as personal chef for the week and Mike agreed to be the extra handyman.

Their house was not newly built. It’s a building they bought, gutted completely inside and out, then re-did the way they wanted. It was a brave, expensive, and time-consuming undertaking. It’s still a work in progress, but their vision is coming-together nicely.

While we were there, one of the things that kept drawing my attention was this big hole in the wall between their kitchen and living room. I know that it is meant to house a fireplace one day, but I also know that fireplaces are expensive, so it may be a while before they actually get one. Based on our experience building the WV place, I know that space will end up being a storage spot for miscellaneous boxes and other junk until it is properly filled.

Who wants to look at that all the time? So, I suggested that Annelies and I do a craft project and make something to hang over the hole as temporary camouflage. She’s not usually one who would go for that idea, claiming she can’t draw and isn’t very artistic. I offered to draw the thing so all she’d have to do was add paint. She agreed.

We bought some inexpensive canvases, paint, and brushes. I found some examples of cat art we’d seen on a previous trip, which I used as inspiration. I drew a cat for each of us, then we got creative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All it took was about 30 Euros(?), a little time, and some creativity. No more unsightly junk-collection spot.

I wonder if they are still hanging there?