butterflies

I found this butterfly print at Goodwill. My son begged me not to get it. He thought it was so ugly. "Just wait" I told him. "I'm going to fix it up."

I paid $4.99 for it, which actually seemed a little high given the damage. I thought that the matte was water damaged. But when I brought it home and took it apart it turns out it was wax on the matte. How did that happen?! I scraped the wax off with my fingernail.

I spray painted the matte white and the frame black and rubbed a little brown craft paint on the frame too.

Here's a close up of the frame.

She looks soooo much better now. The black frame brings out the black on the butterflies and the white matte allows the colors of the butterflies to pop. The only bad thing is I accidentally broke the glass and it's an unusual size so now I have to get a new piece of glass cut for it.