Ode to paint

I needed to be an artist today. I was given this wall hanging by my roommate to repurpose, it creeped her out. 

I painted it gray, I wanted to do some word art or something of that nature I couldn't think of anything. What I wanted to do was: 

Calm, waves or storm

We follow the Lord.

But that seemed like too many words. I didn't know how to make it look good. So I used Google Image to get some ideas came across this picture (on my nemesis pinterest) and thought " I can do this"

So I painted my background and in 20 minutes started to painter's tape my design. I quickly learned that I was tearing off my background with my tape, and decided to go a different direction and use a stencil I got as a gift to create this: 

Very different,but I really like it none-the-less.