banged up, burnt and washed! Beautiful in person! Picks up the beauty of the shells!
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- Thread starter Mikki Kavich MCPF
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banged up, burnt and washed! Beautiful in person! Picks up the beauty of the shells!Come on, what did you start with and what did you do? Can you show us a full frontal pic?
Where is the rest of the story?
op2:
op2:
Started with Foster unfinished (don't make me go look up the #)
Attacked it with an awl first then a rasp and other tools like the nail pulling end of the hammer and the groovy part of my nail set.
Left the splintery bits alone so that when I used the plumbers torch on it they would catch FIRE a bit!!! (outside in the alley, I'm nuts but not that nuts!)Then I move the torch to kind of mimic wood grain lines.
Then I sanded the whole ting to make the burned bits a little less prominent.
Then I mixed up white acrylic and some burnt sienna and water separately on a scrap of mat and then I washed and wiped till I got what I wanted.
It is hard ,for me, to get the color variations in a photo. In person the sienna and white washed places show but are really subtle and nice.
Then I finished all that off with paste wax and steel wool and cloth.
Museum glass....the only thing I would do differently, I think, is use a highly textured sand colored mat to line the inside of the box so the sand would just disappear.
Gail Poshepny
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Wow! Gorgeous Mikki! :thumb:
That's what I want to do. Keep them coming! :nod:
That's what I want to do. Keep them coming! :nod:
Nice job, Mikki.
I have a mental picture of you dressed in dirty overalls, in a back alley among the smashed boxes, dead barrels and lots of trash, flogging the dickens out of a piece of wood with chains, blunt chainsaws and all sorts of dangerous implements, then setting it ablaze with a huge flame thrower and ducking as the flames lick across your head almost setting your hair on fire, muttering "phew, that was close" or some other such American exclamation that I don't even know about!
Jeeeps, you need to be a bit more careful with all that dangerous equipment. None of us want to hear that you have to wear a wig because your hair got burnt off!
I have a mental picture of you dressed in dirty overalls, in a back alley among the smashed boxes, dead barrels and lots of trash, flogging the dickens out of a piece of wood with chains, blunt chainsaws and all sorts of dangerous implements, then setting it ablaze with a huge flame thrower and ducking as the flames lick across your head almost setting your hair on fire, muttering "phew, that was close" or some other such American exclamation that I don't even know about!
Jeeeps, you need to be a bit more careful with all that dangerous equipment. None of us want to hear that you have to wear a wig because your hair got burnt off!
Great writing Ormond...it was like I was there! OH! I WAS!!!!! I have been meaning to clean the alley! LOL!
Mikki,
Next time you go on one of your back alley maneuvers, please set up a video camera so we can all see exactly how it pans out! We need to see the evidence!
Next time you go on one of your back alley maneuvers, please set up a video camera so we can all see exactly how it pans out! We need to see the evidence!
Full frontal evidence!
Just Beachy.... 
I love it!
I love it!
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Looks Great Mikki! Thanks for Sharing.
