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Title: palm trees
Post by: Dean A on November 29, 2012, 08:33:38 pm

here is my latest project which is titled "palm trees"

 I got this pattern from the creative woodworks and crafts, Jan. 2008. Deborah Nicholson designed this pattern.

 The piece is made from one piece of pine 3/4x 9x 20. I did all the cutting and shaping. When that was all done, I hand painted each piece using diffrent technics such as wiping paint on and off, sponge and brush painting. I am not much of a painter, but I think it turned out pretty good. The pic I took does not have a finish on it yet because it always seems to have a glare and you can't see the detail sometimes. I plan on spraying triple thick glaze as my finish and probably do it on Saturday. I will post a follow up pic on this tread when its done.

 Problems I encountered...forgot to put some reference lines on the backer board, so when it was time to glue the pieces on the board I was a little off. I had to use a dremmel to sand back the board because it was sticking past the piece. Also, the backer board was longer than the capacity of my saw. I had to use a spiral blade to reach some places.

 

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Post by: DWSudekum on November 29, 2012, 08:51:14 pm

Those look great.  Thanks for sharing it with us.

DW

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Post by: jrpeteo on November 29, 2012, 08:53:27 pm

For not being much of a painter, they turned out pretty nice! Well done.
Pete

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Post by: ToverT on November 29, 2012, 09:49:31 pm

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!

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Post by: chelcass on November 29, 2012, 09:54:45 pm

I think you did an excellent job.  Very Very nice.

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Post by: troy_curtis on November 29, 2012, 10:00:14 pm

Very nice looking. Did you post it in intarsia spot too? Good painting and very nice cutting. Thanks for sharing.

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Post by: dgman on November 29, 2012, 10:24:49 pm

Very nice Dean!

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Post by: wombatie on November 30, 2012, 12:54:24 am

I think that you can now call yourself a painter, its terrific.

Marg

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Post by: heiko rettberg on November 30, 2012, 01:24:32 am

Looks very nice.

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Post by: Tomsunnu on November 30, 2012, 02:26:10 am

Looks beautiful!
Mahendra

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Post by: Keefie on November 30, 2012, 04:42:51 am

beautiful, nicely done

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Post by: gray6611 on November 30, 2012, 04:49:04 am

BEAUTIFUL .

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Post by: newfie on November 30, 2012, 07:17:05 am

you did a great job with it.

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Post by: Russ C on November 30, 2012, 07:50:14 am

Looks awesome, great job!  :)

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Post by: frankorona on November 30, 2012, 08:43:57 am

Beautiful work, very original, the colors are perfect, thanks for sharing

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Post by: Marcellarius on November 30, 2012, 02:50:13 pm

wow, great job! really nicely done.

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Post by: Al W on November 30, 2012, 02:55:21 pm

Quite nice, thanks for sharing.

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Post by: Marshall on December 01, 2012, 11:14:48 pm

Not a thing wrong here ....

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Post by: jlatorre on December 02, 2012, 03:04:07 pm

Nice combination of colors