Antique Chest Of Drawers Gets A Makeover

This is an interesting project..the client's Aunt painted the flowers in the 1920's, she thinks, and she wants to save that art work, but give the piece over all a new lease on life with a lot of excellent bright colours....You can see this piece in the background of a photo two posts back I think... it was just white all over...


The red stool is something I am painting too, while I am at it; I love that red! Its also very good to sit on while I work....

Early days on this yet, but do like the way I have had the heirloom painting meet the new paint here on the front. I will tidy up and re-emphasize some of the original antique floral later on...

I LOVE these colours. Well, anything with red usually floats my boat....

Finished Chairs

While I was working on the chairs, I snuck these two stools into the mix....once your painting all these colours, and feeling full of energy, no point in just doing a little bit...

Here are the two chairs completed.....I have a feeling they are antiques, especially the larger one. It seemed very old, ...and I think its oak.. they are quite interesting shapes, and very comfortable. They are very solid too. Good for standing on.

They are great. they look like candy.

Painting Furniture

I am on a total roll....I have several chairs, a table and a chest of drawers to paint....I haven't painted furniture in quite a while, and its a really nice change!

I simply cant stop, especially when I have a lot of colours all mixed up ready to go in very nuanced , and not so nuanced (!)shades ; it becomes so satisfying to put them next to each other in a sequence...

A lot of work goes into chairs... all those spindles! And underneath bits! Much dripping to curtail in a timely fashion...
some days, after hours of work and concentration, it feels like I haven't got anywhere!

But the result is they all get done at once...very cool. This table will get the treatment soon....I am thinking fish and waves with a pattern in the centre...

More Fabric Yardage

I am still working on replenishing my tapped out inventory of fabric yardage. Here is the latest piece.

You can click on some of the images to see them bigger....

Below, you can see the first step in painting this fabric. This is how I start most pieces like this. Lots of activity, contrast and drama in the initial steps makes for a denser, more layered final result.

Wet fabric!

This image shows the initial blocking in phase of the floral and viney part.

Then I add shadows for depth and definition...

The finished fabric:

Tine to heat set and wash. Another lovely length of fabric ready for whatever the future may hold....

Painted Fabric Yardage

Here is a hot and bright piece of fabric to brighten up a winter day!

This is yardage that will be used initially for display on a wall in an art show later in February...

and eventually may be cut up into pieces to be made into pillows.

I do enjoy the energetic "ad lib" process I get into when I paint fabric yardage .

Its completely addictive.

Remember, you can click on some of the images to see them larger.

This fabric gets heat set and then washed, and its ready to go!

Bird Fabric

This fabric project has been in the works for many weeks...finally I am able to make the paper sketch a reality on fabric.
This will be 2 pieces of fabric that will hang from a delicate twig and stick arrangement in a rustic lakeside cottage, in a tiny bathroom.

Here is how I started the fabric.

I really like the colour palette in this project...earthy blues and greens, with a lot of ochre and olive...romantic and old timey looking....

I was particularly happy with the faces of the birds. They have a lot of character.

I am eager to see how this fabric will be installed, and I will post pictures if I get some!!