I was a little concerned this
project might not make me happy, when I vacillated endlessly over the color choices.
As a rule, I feel my best ideas just fall into place pretty quickly, so when it
doesn’t, it feels forced and uninspired. What made matters worse is that I
custom-mixed every single color, along with turning them all into chalk paint,
and it seemed to take forever before I was satisfied with the tints. (Word to
the wise…..if you want to tackle a project with several colors of chalk paint,
save yourself the time to make them and just buy Annie Sloan’s chalk paint. The
consistency is already perfect.)
Before......
Voila!
I created 5 colors for this
piece. The base coat is brick red, then a sharp rusty orange, and a zesty mossy
green. The final layer is a fabulous deep and vibrant tint that I would call a
cross between turquoise, aqua, and teal. I think this is my new favorite color.
Glad I made plenty of this for another project. I also mixed a chocolate brown
into the black to make it rich and warm.
After all the distressing
revealed the undercoats, the orange against the red morphs into a beautiful
copper tone, and the green backing the turquoise morphs into a yummy verdigris.
The combination of all the colors backing the warm black is just perfection. I
topped off the chest with a compass rose-inspired star, using the orange and
black paint. And as usual, finished with clear and dark wax.
But of course I couldn’t stop
there. Since I lined the drawers in my last jewelry box project with map paper,
I liked it so much that I had to do it again. This time I made copies of old
maps from an antique map in my Atlas collection. I love that all the maps in
this book are printed using only ivory, aqua blue, orange, and black,
coordinating perfectly with the paint colors.
I am so in love with this
color combination, that I may have to repeat myself on the next project.
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Couldn't resist grouping this with my black pumpkins. Awesome contrast!
I have
an old hanging spice/apothecary cabinet that is itching to be painted…….sooo
gotta go. Projects are waitin!
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