Keeping velvet tiki art alive...? TWO PIECES ARE WRAPPED! YEAH! - Other Crafts

RH Robb Hamel Member Ohio Joined: Mar 07, 2008 Posts: 1013	RH Robb Hamel Posted posted on Mon, Apr 1, 2013 6:33 PM THANKS FOR ALL THE KIND RESPONSES, this is a helluva big project for my short attention span and you guys are helpin' to keep my spirits up!! "GROG surprised you painted the furniture before the walls inside the house. A lot of artists usually paint the farthest background elements before the closer foreground elements. Is that because of the characteristics of working on velvet or is that just your way of working?" Grog, it is part of working on velvet - I couldn't paint around the furniture and then paint them in because the shadow areas of the furniture are all bare velvet, so I had to define the specific shape of the furniture before I painted the walls around them. If I guessed wrong doing the walls first, there'd be no going back. I'm skipping a TON of masking pics and cutting to the chase: the windows are roughed in and the first segment of roof is looking good! I've been wondering what the pool would look like! The tiki is small - about 2 1/2" tall. This is exciting (sarcasm) - the sidewalk gets its second coat. At least it looks more like real concrete. The second section of roof is done, without any smears!!!

THANKS FOR ALL THE KIND RESPONSES, this is a helluva big project for my short attention span and you guys are helpin' to keep my spirits up!!

"GROG surprised you painted the furniture before the walls inside the house. A lot of artists usually paint the farthest background elements before the closer foreground elements. Is that because of the characteristics of working on velvet or is that just your way of working?"

Grog, it is part of working on velvet - I couldn't paint around the furniture and then paint them in because the shadow areas of the furniture are all bare velvet, so I had to define the specific shape of the furniture before I painted the walls around them. If I guessed wrong doing the walls first, there'd be no going back.

I'm skipping a TON of masking pics and cutting to the chase: the windows are roughed in and the first segment of roof is looking good!

I've been wondering what the pool would look like!

The tiki is small - about 2 1/2" tall.

This is exciting (sarcasm) - the sidewalk gets its second coat. At least it looks more like real concrete.

The second section of roof is done, without any smears!!!

Post #673027 by Robb Hamel on Mon, Apr 1, 2013 6:33 PM