stevedenver
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MY latest effort. Man detail accessories are becoming scarce. I picked through some of my old stuff .
i believe if you double click on the photo, it will enlarge and you can see stuff better.
After my last building thread, i thought id be sure to have the obligatory dog....art mimics life....this fellow has an English Mastiff.! Actually he has 1, i have 2!
Like me, im sure he has slobber on his pants....but thats a good thing,
Curved cornice and dental trim was a lot more effort thatn i had anticipated, getting the curve to adhere tightly, and the dental to meet "in quarter" if you will, LOL, ie tooth to tooth.
I stain with paint pigment, fix, wash with wall paint color, paint trim with a stronger wash, then use meths and india ink, which wreaks havoc on the washes leaving a weathered look. then i seal again.
While not typically a red and white kinda guy, (white is always safe, but boring) i had a hard time envisioning a plausible scheme, and didnt feel like doing it twice....i had thought mustard/tan walls and olive trim, but decided that might be too urban....dunno, tiswhutitis....
while in the Colorado mining mountain towns some rather wild and sometimes unattractive paint schemes appear on buildings, sometimes a modern interpretation of old schemes and hues, i find when i do this, they simply dont translate, even if there is a prototype…
Sign light
works...photos reveal i need to attend to the roof and porch edge coloring. Perhaps that sign needs a similar surround to the cornice…would be a pita…
checkerboard was a challenge. i painted the lines using india ink that flowed into the line engraving/relief, then painted each square....oyy.
i believe if you double click on the photo, it will enlarge and you can see stuff better.
After my last building thread, i thought id be sure to have the obligatory dog....art mimics life....this fellow has an English Mastiff.! Actually he has 1, i have 2!
Like me, im sure he has slobber on his pants....but thats a good thing,
Curved cornice and dental trim was a lot more effort thatn i had anticipated, getting the curve to adhere tightly, and the dental to meet "in quarter" if you will, LOL, ie tooth to tooth.
I stain with paint pigment, fix, wash with wall paint color, paint trim with a stronger wash, then use meths and india ink, which wreaks havoc on the washes leaving a weathered look. then i seal again.
While not typically a red and white kinda guy, (white is always safe, but boring) i had a hard time envisioning a plausible scheme, and didnt feel like doing it twice....i had thought mustard/tan walls and olive trim, but decided that might be too urban....dunno, tiswhutitis....
while in the Colorado mining mountain towns some rather wild and sometimes unattractive paint schemes appear on buildings, sometimes a modern interpretation of old schemes and hues, i find when i do this, they simply dont translate, even if there is a prototype…
Sign light
works...photos reveal i need to attend to the roof and porch edge coloring. Perhaps that sign needs a similar surround to the cornice…would be a pita…
checkerboard was a challenge. i painted the lines using india ink that flowed into the line engraving/relief, then painted each square....oyy.
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