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Up-cycling an Old Painting into a New One!

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Have you ever had a sudden urge to repaint a painting? Well I felt something like that recently, when I was bored and had nothing to do (because there was no internet). I saw an old painting hanging in my mom’s room. It was given to her by my aunt as a gift which is very sweet of her. This painting had a really nice frame but the painting itself was very lazy and poorly drawn. This made me think that I should paint over it. So here’s the process of how I up-cycled a painting. Materials that I used: 1.     An old painting with frame 2.     Paints I used acrylic paints by Sakura and Marie because these are the brands which are very accessible to me. You can use any brand you like. I used acrylic instead of poster or oil paints because the canvas in the frame was of a weird material and I couldn’t figure out which material it was. For the final touches I used metallic paints to give the painting a...