How to: Make Art with Pencil erasers and paint

I was really taken with the pencil dot art I found on Pinterest by thelilhousethatcould.com and couldn't wait to try my own.  Since I needed a craft activity this week for our MOPS group, it was a great motivator to do my own.

With sick kid needing me, I totally forgot to take "during" pictures, but will explain the steps I took to do my own project. 

I first headed to Word and found a font I liked for a capital "G"; once I did, I kept enlarging it until it looked like a good size that I could work with.  Printed, enlarged another few times, and I had the "template" I was going to work with.  I just printed it out on plain printer paper, cut out the letter part, and taped what was left to a piece of white card stock.

I used two shades of gray paint, and a bit or orange, thinking this would be a good replacement for the orange Halloween print I still had hanging in there.  And here is the result....not too bad for a first attempt!  It's a little big for the frame, and I had to take out the mat to get it in there. 

But I really like the effect, and plan to make another attempt at a smaller size to fit it better with the framed prints in the bathroom.  or maybe I'll find something else for this frame, and hang the larger G somewhere else. 

I know....it needs to be in the center, right?  But the Halloween print was on the left, and I didn't feel like taking them both down! 

  Sick kid priorities took over: hanging framed art: not even close.