©20/03/16 Nautical themed painted bird house for last weeks SunDIY⚓️🐣 SUND.I.Y Bird House For this weeks Sund.i.y I took a plain wooden birdhouse and painted it with a nautical design. I was inpsired by some of the designs I found on Pinterest and I am happy with the final piece but only because I only had a restricted time period to do it as part of this quick project brief. However if I was to have a go again I would probably go with my original idea of painting exotic and colourful birds onto it. Again with this piece I did not draw it out in pencil first which I think was a bad move! If I were to work on another design, say the exotic bird one, I would 100% use pencil to plot and design the birds, this way you can work out if there is enough room for the design and ensure it is visually attractive- for example if you wanted to line up motifs, such as the hearts on the front, or make them all the same size and shape. It is also a lot easier to create a small image when it has been outlined in pencil before as you can just focus on carefully filling the shape in!