It took me one weekend to make it. It took me another 2 weeks to paint it. I started with a coat of primer and two coats of white paint. The cat and dog where created by scanning in the picture off a towel. I printed this image on overhead transparencies. I then cut out different colors on each transparency creating a stencil. I used these stencils to create the image. I then brushed on a single coat of polycrylic.