Completed Stand Really Stands Out :)

by DP

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I have a small cabinet that I had stained very dark because it had some marks I couldn't

as you can see here I had already stripped the door using citristip and covering with plastic to remove the finish, I had not started on the rest yet but you can see how dark it is. My hubby said because of the shape of the cabinet it needed something like a shield on it so I searched around for different pictures and combined a few to make my own shield

I used blockposters.com to get the right size, taped the printouts together, traced it onto the wood using carbon paper. I used different colors of acrylic paints, used gold for the shield , brown for shadows and white for highlights, silver for the swords and black for shadows, blacks and greys for the the eagles , white for the feathers just painting short lines in white for the feathers, red and yellow for the background and the lower part I just tapped white onto the grey shadows to make it look cloudy like. I can't wait to finish the cabinet and put it all together.

This is the shield completed, it only needs sealed

here is a horse I painted on the top to help disguise some of the flaws and also it is the horse to go with the knights shield. The horse was a combination of tracing and drawing, I had to add onto an image I found online. I used black, white acrylic paints to paint it. You could also mod podge an image if you can't paint.

This is the completed stand, the side wood and legs came out with awesome grain. I do hope that people are able to see this one. It seems that my posts get hidden and no one finds them.

I feel I made a dingy cabinet very unique and lively

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LibraryKAT on Aug 18, 2017

You did make it a vivid piece. You obviously have good artistic training or native talent to be able to paint so nicely. Thank you for sharing. :-)

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- DP on Aug 19, 2017
  Thank you, actually I have not had much training at all but have always loved doing art. I did take a class from a local establishment many years ago and have watched some videos.
  
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- LibraryKAT on Aug 19, 2017
  Must be natural talent, then. It's a good thing to follow your heart. Keep painting and thank you for sharing. :-)
  
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Cheryl Toll Feyen on Sep 04, 2017

Beautiful!

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