The Tiny Haunted Gallery
$5PDF guideThrift-store ghosts. Original painting intact.
Turn an inexpensive landscape print into a tiny haunting with a removable painted overlay. Includes ghost shapes, placement rules and fixes for wobbly paint.
- A removable overlay method
- Original traceable ghost shapes
- Composition and paint troubleshooting
- A materials and cleanup checklist
That thrift-store landscape has a new tenant.
A tiny ghost by the lake. Another peeking out of the trees. Spend an afternoon giving an ordinary print a very mild haunting. Trace the shapes, paint a separate clear layer and slip it into the frame.
Your kind of afternoon?
A beginner who wants the thrifted ghost-art look without painting over someone else’s work.
Round these up
An inexpensive framed print, a thin clear craft sheet, suitable paint, two small brushes, a tested marker, scissors and a ruler. Use a low-value reproduction, not a valuable or fragile original.
Before you make a day of it.
Do I paint directly on the picture?
No. This version uses a separate clear sheet. It is a decorative craft method for inexpensive prints, not archival framing.
How long does it take?
Allow about an hour of active work, plus the drying time on your paint label. Test the paint on a scrap of the same sheet first.
