AED - Day 181 - paintings

More color flow layers.

AED - Day 180 - painting

It's yours for the taking - How bad do you want it?

Whatever "it" is, you are going to have to put some amount of effort into getting it. Don't just sit back, hoping and praying things will work out. For any achievement, action is required. You get out of it, what you put into it.

So how bad do you want it?

AED - Day 179 - sketch

Umbrella  ;-)

AED - Day 178 - painting

This piece seems to be my experiment board. Its got at least 3 layers of paints, glass beads, and today I tried this new gold ink on it I just got. Played with spraying alcohol on it too. I'm sure it will change again at some point.

AED - Day 177 - more faux

I totally forgot to take before pictures.

Today I distressed these cabinets in a bathroom - they were a solid taupe color and I white washed them with a pearl colored paint mixed with glaze.

I also painted parts of this stained glass window. The dark brown/burgundy pieces were a bright orange that did match the surrounding rooms decor at all. I also toned down the bright green and yellow pieces with a gold paint.

AED - Day - 176 - faux

Today I fixed a faux finish. It had been painted by someone else (when I was really busy and couldn't do it last summer) to match the adjacent room which I had done a couple years ago. Unfortunately the other painter did not apply the topcoat the way I had done, so it came out much darker and muddier, and the client was not happy with it. So today I did my best to adjust it without having to totally repaint it from scratch.

You can see from the first picture what I did - the top section of the wall looks very solid, the bottom section below the light switch, and the soffet are what I adjusted it to (lighter with more dimension). The second picture shows the wall I did a few years ago (with the vase on it) and I adjusted the walls closest to the cabinet to match (they were solid looking before -No dimension). It is still not an exact match but to get an exact match would have required going back to white and starting over. The client wanted an easy fix and was happy with the results.

AED - Day 175 - you mean something

No matter what your thoughts tell you, no matter what other people say.....You mean something. You are important.

Never forget that.