My ginger never was painted, by me at least, and I ended up making a small teddy bear who suffers the same fate. My girls' artistic hand. They both have talked about how much they want to join in on the journey and I explained I will let them with a few adjustments: Ivory Soap & Butter knife.
Over the last few days I have been working on painting my coat of arms and spraying a few good coats of lacquer on it. Some of the fumes coming off the freshly sprayed coat of arms took me back and also made me nauseated. It took several hours to do this. I had to wait 20 minutes between each coat to put a new on one. So I would roll out and poke my head out the patio door, give the can a shake, spray spray spray, and quickly close the door. 5 hours later I had a product I was ready to say "Done".
I also made another trip to the Hobby Town USA store and bought myself a few more pieces of basswood that would allow me to make a larger, sturdier coat of arms, and the ornaments I had in mind.
So what's next? I want to try my hand at chip carving and decided on a Christmas tree ornament set in one of the books I got from the library. I have already cut out and carved the outside edge and with chip carving I am going to paint the ornament first and then carve the inside of the ornament. This will allow the chip carving work to 'pop'. Yea I just used it... POP! Lets see how this goes.
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