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Yay that's exciting! Post pics!

I'm doing this but with our places of origin like him for Costa Rica and me for Puerto Rico. I'm doing it myself tho cause I feel like it's pretty straight forward and honestly therapeutic in a sense. Beside its just an easy canvas painting, I can always just get another one cheap if I screw up and I wanna use it to decorate our apartment too hehe

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My biggest concern is that watercolor doesn't always stick well to canvas, so I bought a special watercolor canvas from Amazon. I'm also a little worried that the paint will slide under the edges of my stencils. I'm planning to make them out of cardstock, but if that doesn't work, I might need to use vinyl or some other option that will have some kind of seal to prevent the paint leaking.

If it was acrylic, I could do it in about an hour - I've done these kinds of projects with acrylic paint dozens of times!

We did something similar! I had the same concerns about watercolor - I decided to go with acrylic and just use one coat of each to give it a more watercolor "look." I didn't use stencils on the paint, but used them to make a faint colored pencil outline in a similar color to the paint. Took me about 2 hours to get it on the canvas, then let it set, did some touch ups, added the black paint and was done in a weekend.

Sounds beautiful , can't wait to see it

View Quoted Comment What I'm worried about it getting the right shape of our countries.... You can find stensiles of the states but I haven't found of countries at all... Or at least free ones lol

View Quoted Comment You can easily blow it up to the size you want and cut it out. Put clear tape on the paper to water proof it if you’re planning on painting with it. Otherwise I would just trace it lightly with a pencil and go over with a dark color border or erase it.

You can also water down your acrylic to get the water color effect - just add layers to desired level of opacity.

View Quoted Comment That's what I've been thinking but I want to do the colors of our flags which will be a bit more complicated. So I was thinking either acrylic or spray paint it with the stensils, to make the colors more deep and vibrant.

View Quoted Comment I’m planning to use my cricut machine to make my own stencils. If you don’t own one, maybe a friend of your does and can make stencils in the right shape and size for you?

That sounds awesome! I would definitely do some trial runs with the paint on scrap paper until you get the technique down.

View Quoted Comment Or just do it the old school way and print it cut it and do it lol

We are doing where we bought a letter B for our last name and people can sign it

That sounds beautiful!!!