First, I picked up a 7 pack of cheap canvases on sale at Michaels. I think they are usually $20 and I got them for $11... If I find the receipt I'll check and see what I paid, but in any case it was not very much. Next, I used painter's tape to mask off simple designs.
If you get stuck trying to make each canvas unique, mimic the shapes of different letters. One of my canvasses looks sort of like an A, another like a W, another like a series of "T"s, and so on. You could even make words with your canvases, if you are so inclined.
After taping off all seven canvasses, I headed to the back yard with a can of spraypaint. I choose silver because there is a lot of silver in our kitchen and living room (in the appliances, , pillows, hardware, etc) and because I already had a can in the garage. I only used about half a can to do all seven canvasses. I pulled off the tape to reveal the designs.
You can't tell in this picture, but I wasn't completely satisfied with how blurry some of the lines looked. I thought about just pretending like this was part of the plan, but everything else in the room has such clean lines. Had I been more thorough when applying the tape, I wouldn't have had this problem. I chose to paint all the lines with white craft paint by hand, which straightened up the edges. This was the longest step. In an hour or so I was finished and started to decide how to hang them.
At first I thought I'd plan out a design on the floor, then transfer it to the wall. Then I realized I wasn't that patient. I just put six nails in the wall in random fashion around the TV, somewhat considering how big the canvases were and what direction they would hang. I shuffled them around on the wall until I landed on an order I liked. This picture is not the best, so I'll update it when I take a better one.
