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SK's Painted Journey of Wishes
by
SK on Elderberry
(IC: professional)
"TO ROAM OR NOT TO ROME"
My Father was on a sailor on a destroyer tender ship in the Japan Harbor when the armistice of World War II was signed. This iconic image of a sailor kissing a surprised nurse whispers memories of a generation almost gone.
My Father was on a sailor on a destroyer tender ship in the Japan Harbor when the armistice of World War II was signed. This iconic image of a sailor kissing a surprised nurse whispers memories of a generation almost gone.
"Wonderfulness" Thank you Lori in Canada. What a grand word. It wraps everything into a nice imaginational word.
My Mother also now gone, keeped this gem of a newspaper article her entire life. I found it in her hope chest after she passed away this last year.
This would have been called a English gentleman's smoking chair. Sadly left alone on a thrift floor for many months, I purchased him for a grand price of $19.00
Although the chair was built with the greatest of care, including down filling, the upholstery fabric is an inexpensive vinyl. After ninety five years or so, the surface was showing great areas of stress and rubbing. The cording was in excellent condition, just decades of rub marks
The design I imagined so carefully in my dreams, evolved as I painted. I wanted to see if I could create a piece with balance of color and design and still keep the theme intact.
Adding, deleting, adding deleting. I just kept painting till it made me smile...Not very technical I know.
Thanks Graphics Fairy
Flower Puffs, my children call Wishes. I remember running down the road as a child with little specks of white magical puff flowing in my wake.
At the completion of my painting I washed the entire surface with an antiquing medium of chocolate brown and carefully wiped most of it off.
The last step was to wax the entire piece with paste wax and buff to an old world shine. The nail heads are painted gold to match the dipped gold feet and gold offset buttons.
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Published February 28th, 2015 8:47 PM
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Dee on Sep 09, 2015One of the most beautiful and beautifully thought-out pieces I have seen, and your accompanying story should be sealed in an envelope underneath the seat of that chair, just in case it winds up in a thrift shop again someday. Wonderful! What a gift that would be, to celebrate the gift you obviously have, and carry on the memories of those who roamed and did not come home, lost or not.
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Terrell Solano on Feb 18, 2016LOVE this!
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SK on Elderberry on Feb 19, 2016@Terrell Sanzone Thank you Terrell. It's pretty darn special. Thanks for the visit. SK on Elderberry
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