Well here it is. I thought I’d have a lot of trouble with the name, but Kath suggested I try lower case and so I had a bash on a practice board and found it quite easy. I suppose it didn’t take any more than five or six minutes when I did it for real on the can.
The bottom row of roses on the other hand were a pig. I couldn’t seem to get the colours or the paint consistency right, particularly the latter. It’s a good job you can’t see the finished job too close ‘cos it doesn’t bear close scrutiny. I think it’ll look OK on the boat though. Now I understand I have to varnish over the decoration and I’m reading up on varnishes.
It looks great - a really good mix of tradition, with a modern colour scheme. Next time I see you, we can talk about painting Briar Rose on my can!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant, lower case works better
ReplyDeleteI guess you will be on your next item very shortly
Tim
Your roses look superb.
ReplyDeleteLooking really good Neil. I would be proud of those roses. Some decoration of the spout would look good and some diagonal multi coloured stripes on the base. Keep up the good work - it gets easier the more you practise. I checkout other peoples work and blag their ideas.
ReplyDeleteCraftmaster varnish. No contest.
ReplyDelete(Sarah on Chertsey. Blogger keeps defaulting to my work Google account for which I don't have a profile so it won't accept the comment)