Need Help with Art Project for DD Room...

[MadilynnsMomma]

Please don't flame me for not designing her room Disney - but I want to put different pictures from Dr. Seuss on to 8x8 or 10x10 canvases and hang them on her wall. DD has the Mammut set from Ikea in red/pink and it is kind of Seussical on it's own. She does love Princesses, but I think Dr. Seuss may appeal better to my DFi. SOO... here in lies my problem... what is the best avenue to achieve this? I was thinking of copying pages onto my scanner and then printing them out and Gesso'ing them to the canvas... will the colors bleed, will the colors fade? Should I take the scanned images to my local CVS and have them printed out with photo quality inks and paper? Should I get really adventurous and attempt to sketch them out on the canvases and paint them by hand...? I am open to any help and suggestions. I also figure that this will be an inexpensive way to switch out wall art as she gets older.

 

[FINFAN]

get a projector from Michaels or another craft store...trace the image onto the canvas and then paint it or hire someone to..but you can do this, no need to hire out! Print your image in B/W on the best quality so you can get nice dark easy lines to trace, then copy it again in color for your ref when painting. Other than that, you can take the image to Kinkos and see if they will print it, I think you may be limited to 24x36...so not really over the top Seuss size.
Just make sure the room is totally dark to do the tracing..any light can make it difficult and try to finidh it all at once, lining it up again can be tricky depending on how detailed the image is.
Sounds like a fun room, would love to see pics of the finished project!