Abstract Art for the Office

The master bedroom and office in our apartment are the same room since we caved and let each kid have their own room. (It's heaven around 8 pm, though, so it's all worth it!) Since we are going to be living in this apartment for less than a year, I have been trying to come up with simple, affordable wall hangings to make it still feel like home.

Since my first hoorah with foam board went a little downhill, I decided to try it again and see if I could make it work.

Presenting .... my version of DIY wanna-be abstract art.

I studied this tutorial on DIY abstract art and followed it very loosely.

Here are my two foam boards from Hobby Lobby at $5.50 each (used a 40% off coupon for one).

I did buy extra yellow acrylic paint for $3, but didn't use it, so I'm taking it back. Instead I used this eclectic group of paints I already had: acrylic craft paints, Krylon Short Cuts (small bottles of Krylon paint), and, yes, even my kids' Crayola finger paint. All of it worked fine, couldn't really tell a difference among them. But then again, I am no artist. As you will see...

I began with yellow....

 then pink...

 then forgot to take pictures for awhile .... and suddenly: grey, dark pink, light pink, and purple!

 I mixed each color with white to tone it down, make it less loud. This is for a bedroom office, remember, so we're going for serenity. Kind of. As you can see, the above paintings kind of scream: ACK!

 Anyway, I layered on more colors, consulted the tutorial and realized I didn't have enough white. So I added a bunch of white. You'll see.

Here's the before shot of the office corner. Disheveled, sad, lonely, bleak and barren wasteland are all words and phrases that come to mind.

Here are my paintings.

 And here they are together.

 

Here's the other side of the room. Yellow ombre canvas, meet your new canvas-wanna-be friends that you get to look at now.

They are kind of a hot mess, and yet I liked them enough to hang them.

What do you think, real artists, am I ready for the MoMA?