My Latest Project

As soon as I finished my flower end table I was ready to start another project. I went to Goodwill and found this cool piece. (I don't know what to call it.) It has such a neat shape, and I wanted to paint it with a distressed/antique look. To start, I sanded it, painted it a base color, and then researched ways to accomplish the look I wanted. I couldn't find a good instruction guide, and ended up pulling directions from like 3 different places. Needless to say, it did not turn out how I wanted at all. Instead of sanding it down and trying again, I just painted it charcoal gray and used a stencil to paint bronze colored flowers on it. I know that I need to move away from the flower thing, but Ben Franklin's (art store) only had a few stencils, and this was my favorite one. I think eventually I may end up sanding it down and doing something else with it, but for now I will just keep it how it is. Here are a few before and after pictures. Enjoy!