An easy ombre globe.

I love this little globe I picked up at a yard sale a few years ago.  I have transformed it a couple of times over.  It’s had two Halloween make-overs and been repainted for Valentine’s Day.  I have another project coming up, but in the meantime, I got a wild hair and decided to do a quick ombre treatment.

It’s pretty fun, right?  I like that it’s kind of beachy and that I can just paint over it and make it something else.

I started out by painting over the heart and text from the Valentine’s Day globe. I just used a basic spray primer and grabbed 4 graduated shades of blue acrylic paint.  Fortunately, globes come with latitude lines.  These make great guidelines for painting the stripes of color.  I started in the middle (um, at the equator)  and then worked my way out from there, blending the colors as I went along.  Not. Rocket. Science.

Easy, fun and best of all, can be painted over the very second I get bored with it.

Scary Places Globe                                              Ribbon Globe                                             Valentine’s Day Globe

Do you have a globe…?  Whatcha gonna do with it?

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