Back to School Fashion, Styling Your Classroom Furniture

School is starting tomorrow, which means it is time to get the art room blog up and rolling again! Over the summer a lot has changed and I find myself at a wonderful new elementary school! Yay!! Around the same time I found myself with ten of these small wooden chairs that I picked up at a sale for 35 cents a piece! I know what you're thinking. . . what a great deal, you should have bought all twenty of them! Alas, if only I had the space at home for twenty extra chairs, let alone my car!

Anyways once I was hired for my new position I knew I had to do something fun with these chairs. So I decided to paint them to look like famous works of art of course! My first chair was a great success, inspired by Piet Mondrian.






First I sanded the chair and sprayed it with a white primer. Afterwards I sprayed it with glossy black. Once that had thoroughly dried I taped off my design. I used the painters tape called Frog Tape and I would definitely recommend it, no paint bleeding! Then I used oil based glossy paint to color in the shapes. . . and tah dah! A great new chair that is super fun and fits perfectly at my low computer desk!











The chair is just the first peak at my awesome new art room, which I will be posting about later this week! Along with my new students back to school portrait and let us not forget the class mascot/art expert Ribs the Gray Tree Frog!