{"id":627,"date":"2018-01-23T16:25:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T21:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2018-06-14T15:31:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:31:29","slug":"leaf-wall-hangings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Leaf wall hangings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Autumn-themed wall art!\u00a0 This project was a bit difficult by my standards.\u00a0 Each leaf is cut out of plywood with a jigsaw.\u00a0 The picture unfortunately doesn’t do these much justice.\u00a0 They are quite large.\u00a0 The maple leaf is about 2ft x 2ft!\u00a0 After the shapes were cut out I did a good sanding of everything then painted each leaf by hand with acrylic paints.\u00a0 The colors on the maple leaf are subtle but really beautiful closer up.\u00a0 I kinda hate the oak leaf so I might take another whack at re-painting that next year but it is effective I suppose.\u00a0 I liked a little shine so I used some spray clear coat on both to seal them up a bit.\u00a0 I attached a board to the back of each leaf and screwed some eyebolts into that board then used a piece of string to give me something to hang these on the wall with.\u00a0 Because my plywood was so thin (I think I used something close to 1\/4″), I didn’t want to drill a screw through the front of my leaf to attach the board on the back for hanging.\u00a0 So I ended up gluing the back board on.\u00a0 In theory, this works just fine.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I used super glue thinking it should hold up fine and was disappointed to find that my maple leaf took a dive in the middle of the night and broke in a couple different places.\u00a0 (Why oh why wasn’t it that ugly oak leaf?!)\u00a0 Anyway, I would suggest wood glue to secure the hanging hardware.\u00a0 Overall, I like how large these were and that they were a big pop of color that I could keep up for all of autumn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Autumn-themed wall art!\u00a0 This project was a bit difficult by my standards.\u00a0 Each leaf is cut out of plywood with a jigsaw.\u00a0 The picture unfortunately doesn’t do these much justice.\u00a0 They are quite large.\u00a0 The maple leaf is about 2ft x 2ft!\u00a0 After the shapes were cut out I did a good sanding of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[24,406,16,437,409,20,360,410,434,361,435,436,470,433],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crafts","tag-autumn","tag-craft","tag-crafts","tag-decor","tag-decoration","tag-decorations","tag-fall","tag-holiday","tag-leaf","tag-leaves","tag-maple-leaf","tag-oak-leaf","tag-stevenselbyart","tag-wall-art","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenselbyart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}