Creative art and design

Where we lived before we only had offstreet parking. One day someone took the passenger side mirror off the car. Not cool. There was plenty of room to drive by the cars on the street where it had been parked. Anyways, we had the mirror replaced with a plain black mirror since that is all the car shop had. Now, they said oh take it to a paint shop, they can paint it for you the color of the car. How much would that be, we wondered and they said probably about 400 dollars or so. For a mirror? You kidding me? Point in question, it is one of my projects to paint the thing myself. It is only the back of the mirror.

I still need to get some sort of tshirt/jeans board up in the studio. We figure a sheet of plywood might do. The way things are set up now, I had to take that mirror outside the garage (since I was using a spraycan not an airbrush gun). Also painted some old pegs for the pegboard while I was at it. Dear hubby wanted to save them if possible and since I already painted the pegboard, I figured painting the holders for it wasn’t too much of a stretch.

First, I scuffed the back for the mirror. Alright, that went fairly well (first time I scuffed anything). Ok, went outside, and wind… and there was a hair, or something arghhh. Ok, wipe it off, wash it scuff it get the paint off… start over… oh boy. Then I was thinking I was gonna paint something on the mirror but decided to just leave it plain color and clear coat it. I don’t have one of those fancy vinyl cutting machines (for stencils) nor did I feel like sitting there with a knife cutting a stencil. Freehanding I do fairly often, but doing so now would have meant the slightest mistake start over. So for now it will be plain color for the mirror.

On a sort of different note, why does it have to be so hard (seems impossible) to find a mask that is smaller than the standard medium? The one I have now is a bit too big. I need one that can filter out the right stuff too, so just a plain dustmask won’t do.

As a side note, (hm many notes here now I guess) it is good to keep turpentine handy. Doesn’t smell good, but it gets that paint off. I was looking a bit silvery there at one point. After painting it outside I carried it in, to clear coat it.

Here are some pics, enjoy. Sorry no pics of the “silvery” me, I didn’t want to get paint all over the camera lol!

Scuffed plastic back of mirror. First try.

Some of the supplies. Used spraycan this time for silver paint.

Here is the result. Clear coated silver back for mirror.

Until next blog post,
Kanweienea Kreations