Slytherin Bead Art

I obviously really like Harry Potter, so I decided to create a piece based on that. I'm one of those people who have taken a bunch of online quizzes to figure out my Hogwarts life and I've found that I am Slytherin through and through. I wanted to put a twist to this project, so rather than using a traditional medium, I chose to use beads.

• Glass seed beads (I used size 12/0)
• Blank canvas
• Glue (I used tacky glue)
• Pencil
• Tweezers/pliers/whatever you want to use to apply those tiny beads!

To begin, I painted the canvas black. You can paint this any color depending on what design you'd like, or just don't paint it at all.

I printed out a black and white copy of the Slytherin crest off of Google to make this easier. Then, I simply drew it onto the canvas with a pencil.

As you can see, I got ahead of myself and started the next step before I remembered to take a picture. My bad.

Here comes the fun part!

Get your glue and, using your drawing as a guide, squeeze a dollop onto the area where the beads will go.

Finally, get your bead-placing utensil (I used inexpensive tweezers) and place the beads onto the area you glued.

There are 2 methods I used for this:

For the outlines and areas with more detail, it's better to carefully place the beads one at at time.

For the bigger areas where I just had to fill in open spaces, I dumped the beads onto the glue and moved them around with the tweezers until they looked presentable.

But, your choice.

Keep going until you finish the project.

You can also apply a layer of Mod Podge to make sure everything stays in place. I didn't do this step, so I don't know how well it'll work, but go ahead and give it a try.