“Sing Me To Sleep” Headboard

Here’s a project I finished recently that I don’t really have set instructions for, but if you want to give it a try I think it could be really cool. Hand lettering is a really cool concept to me, and I’ve read a lot about it but never really tried it myself. So naturally I decided to make my first project a huge hand-painted headboard.

If you’d like to emulate this same type of project, you’ll need to make a canvas headboard like this one. Then use some paint to add your word or phrase of choice. It can be a lyric like this one or maybe a quote from a book or movie. It can also be helpful to look up some examples of lettering that you like and then use a pencil to trace it onto the canvas first. I didn’t trace them though, hence the sloppiness.

Overall, I’m pretty happy with them though. And I’m definitely going to keep working on some lettering projects, maybe on a smaller scale though. Have any of you worked on hand lettering projects before?