Craftscape- Avatar: The Last Airbenders Paintings

We got the entire Avatar: The Last Airbender series for a wedding present and we watched it all last year.  I bought the Nation symbols soap from Geeky Clean (they don’t have them anymore, but their other stuff is pretty nifty too http://www.geekyclean.com)  for my husband’s birthday, which was awesome, but then we used the soap up, so I had nothing to proclaim our airbender love in the house. So I decided it was time to paint some symbols. For those of you who didn’t spend hours on end in the art room in high school, don’t worry, I shall show you crafty trickery.

Do a search for the airbender symbols, print one out to fit your canvas size. Scribble some charcoal on the back of the printout, then flip it over onto the canvas and trace over the lines with a pencil. The pressure of the pencil will transpose the charcoal onto the canvas and you can go from there. I only did this one on the fire nation symbol, which gave it a nice ember touch, but you obviously wouldn’t want to get too much on say the air symbol or it’ll smear all up in your paint.

I used acrylic on canvas, simply because that’s what I had at hand and what I paint with most.  The only downside with acrylic is it dries fast, but you can get a nice layered effect going if you keep on edging the colored acrylic with white, then going back and touching up the color. To give a little more depth I mixed whatever paint I was using with copious amounts of white and applied it as a background wash.

In just a few short hours you’ll have a homemade decor to show your fandom of the best.cartoon.series.ever. (Well, since X-Men and Batman: The Animated Series and Animaniacs, those were pretty awesome too.)