| Painting birdhouses can be a fun hobby! Most | | | | more paint, the better (especially if they end up |
| unpainted birdhouses range from $5.00 to $20.00 | | | | outside). Another reason why I choose to work |
| at Michaels, a chain craft store here in the U.S. For | | | | with them has to do with the multiple planes of |
| the most part, they keep unpainted birdhouses in | | | | birdhouse architecture. Trying new design ideas on |
| stock year 'round. Birdhouses can be purchased | | | | different planes is easier than painting on 2-D |
| from art and gift stores, craft shows, garage | | | | formats. When painting on 2-D canvases, artists |
| sales, antique stores, and even thrift stores. They | | | | need to worry about composition and framing, |
| are plentiful, once you get an eye for seeing | | | | whereas this is typically not too much of a |
| them. Thanks to birdhouses, I have slowly and | | | | concern when painting birdhouses.I decoupage, |
| gradually improved my artistic skills. You might | | | | glaze, antique, stress, sponge, stencil, and even |
| wonder, why birdhouses?Since birdhouses are | | | | faux paint birdhouses. Birdhouses are the perfect |
| made out of wood, they can be painted over and | | | | format to explore color schemes too. |
| over. They are great to practice on. In fact, the | | | | |