Sunday, August 17, 2014

It officially has a name.



Getting a straight, thin line of paint is not easy to do.  I spent several hours marking and taping it out before painting.  It's not perfect, but you have to look right down it to catch any waviness.The strip took all of about 5 minutes per side for each coat (2 in total).  The graphic work took a bit longer.  I worried about how I was going to transfer the patterns but it turned out to be super easy.  I printed out the design on printer paper.  I then roughly cut out the design, leaving about 1/2" all round it.  Then, I used a pencil to shade in in the entire back side of the design.  I taped it into place, then traced the outline with a mechanical pencil.  This left me a faint, but easily visible pencil outline.  Then, it was just a matter of painting inside the lines.   I don't have the greatest hand for this, but it looks nice from 2 feet away, so I'm happy with it.



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