Hammer nails along the outline of your shape. Scissors to cut string as needed.
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It will create a small indentation in the paint so you can follow along when you start nailing.
Nail and string art on wood. Cut off excess string. You also don t want nails too close together or you won t be able to get the string around the nails. I really didn t want to mess with hammers and cutting wood and all that though so i used cork board instead.
There isn t much woodworking involved but they make. After this process is done knot the string twice on the last nail of that letter. You can crisscross the string there is no specific way to do this you just need to fill in the space.
Make a customized name word picture or state with nails and some thread super easy and cute. Use wood solid plywood or particle board because it offers a hard surface on which to secure the nails in place. In this video i show all the steps for making string art.
I feel like with this project the bigger the better. This video tutorial is a very in depth look at how i make my string art. Easy to work with lig.
Diy string art tutorial. Start off with the blank wooden plank board. Nails we ended up using the 18 gauge x 3 4 inch nails.
It s surprisingly easy and gives beautiful results. To make the dream string art shown in the first photo we used a 1 5 cm 5 8 thick particle board with a white melamine coating. Nail string art anjelika temple.
I ve been seeing tons of string art popping up all over the web and decided to try my hand at a piece of my own. How far apart to set you nails the more nails you have the more full your string art will be. String art can also be done on inexpensive canvas.
If you only have 2 nails on one side you won t be able to criss cross as many times as you would if you had 10 nails. Anyways paint board the color design of your choice and set to dry. And the great thing is that you can make pretty much any shape you want in any colour.
Find and save ideas about nail string art on pinterest. Once you get to the end of making the outline of the letter start wrapping the string around random nails to fill up the space. Pattern for string art we printed an image of a seahorse found online.
Google whatever you want to use as your pattern and use it as an outline. Mine isn t the largest. I chose to include all the little tips i have learned the hard way.
Place it over a painted piece of wood and trace using a pen or pencil. It is 55 cm 21 1 2 wide and 45 cm 17 1 2 long.
