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Painting Project Photos
19th June 2009 1:21 ∞ Animal welfare, Photos, Traditional art ∞ Busy busy, Projects ∞ RSS 2.0
My brother recruited me about a month ago to paint some furniture for him. He lucked into some furniture by some elite artist for his resale shop, and decided I’d be handy to paint some up for sale. I checked out the website, which I can’t find now. I can’t remember the url and an image/web search is not working. Anyway. He started getting impatient a week ago when I hadn’t started anything, so I got busy. I started with a bench (no seat) that seats one, and painted it in two shades of blue, with yellow trim and with two red legs and two yellow legs. (Pardon the error of a bit ago. I’m bleary.) Then I did some flowers on the back of the seat, and a sun with a Celtic knotwork design around it.
I know I’ve painted that stupid knotwork 8 or 9 times and it got very frustrating. I got up today and took the sander to it, to remove the layers of paint I’d put on trying to get it how I liked it. It just wasn’t working. Tonight, though, it did. (I got the designs out of books I checked out of the library.) I haven’t painted anything remotely artistic in well over 20 years, but this is going pretty well. I think working in Photoshop has helped me. Couple of pics below, then more to read…
Not sure if you can tell, but the sun has multi-color “rays” on it, and the red and white are on top of those. I still have to touch up the main “background” paint all over the bench, and I’m going to add more flowers and a fairy with a Celtic cross.
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Kitties are always piles of furry cuteness. Mine will be a stinker and do something bad, and as soon as I notice he’ll roll over onto his back and try to get me to rub his belly. Cuteness, a powerful weapon.
I think you paint very well. The sun pattern looks like it took a long time. Did you sketch it in with pencil first, or just grab a brush and go?
It is indeed a most powerful weapon. They’re clearly demon spawn with the charm of the cutest cherub.
I had a printout of the outline of the design, which I transferred to the bench with graphite paper (which sucks ass for this purpose, ftr). Then I painted it 7 or 8 times, then sanded it down. After that it was pure brush work. I didn’t draw the face on, for instance, before painting it, and the design itself didn’t show any finished work to go by.
Earlier attempts to paint it included half orange, half yellow knotwork, in an attempt to cleverly “shade” it. It was frustrating and the layers of paint built up. The sun itself never got beyond the initial “slap on the face design for a guide” stage until last night. All the shading of the face was pure brush work, and I’ve never done any kind of paint blending like that before. I was really happy with how it came out.
Hope you’re doing well. I got up half an hour ago with the Headache of Champions, and I wasn’t even drinking… bah.
The bench looks really really good! I don’t have patience to paint or draw celtic knotwork, I can’t ever seem to get it right, lol. Did you ever find out what was wrong with the mother cat? The kittens are adorable, I’d take a few if I didn’t live so far away.