Creative art and design

I got some more painting done today. Yesterday I painted some cabinets with red spraypaint (Sherwin-Williams, and it was good paint too). I used red paint inside the cabinets as well. I also airbrushed some on them. Later they were of course clear coated. Today, I painted the top of the old cabinet blue. It is still drying so I can’t clear it yet, but will get that done here later today. I also painted a dragon on the mailbox. I didn’t have an outlet close so I couldn’t use the airbrush for that one and thus I handpainted it instead. Here are the results.

Until next blog post,
Kanweienea Kreations

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!

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Kanweienea Kreations

The weather got better and we marked fence line with twine, sprayed marker paint where the postholes will go etc. I think we are going to have to re-mark some of the spots lol, because when moving the lawn some of them almost disappeared. I think we got about 5 postholes fully done so far, going to be working on three more today while dear hubby is at work. We managed to get some posts home in the car (woohoo it fit!).

While cleaning up the property lines, our newfie enjoyed helping out.

As for the garage, we still need to chisel out some glass blocks so we can mount the commercial grade fan I got. In the meantime I still have some old trusted box fans to use. We also for now got a heavy duty folding table to put against the back wall. It will do for a work table for now. There used to be some cabinets on the backwall, they were rusted and crooked so we took them down. Once we took them down there were of course holes in the wall. I have considered putting some sort of homemade easel against the wall for now. I’m not too concerned with fixing the wall up instantly. We are still planning to insulate the walls by winter and it can be done before then.

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Well we got the garage walls painted. I chose a white sapphire from Behr (very impressed with their quality paints by the way). According to the paper sample it was supposed to come out a very light blue. Well, it did darken upon drying, but it is still whiter than I thought it would be. Still, I think it looks nice. We are hoping to insulate the garage before the winter and then I might choose a different color. Still, the light color will help with making it brighter to work in the garage, ahem studio. Especially since we are going to have to block off some of the glass block window. The shutter fan (12 inches) arrived the other day. Hubby helped paint the garage walls. He preferred to not be posted on the internet (sorry, I tried, I really did). Therefore I concealed his looks accordingly. Let me know what you think @kankreations on Twitter!

Here is my hunny bunny (pun intended) helping paint the walls. As you can see the yellow cream color (yucko!!) is getting nicely covered by the Behr paint. The slightly darker white you see is the paint that was behind the pegboard that had been there. Whoever painted the garage before had not painted behind it.

As you might be able to tell, the tiny bit of blue in the white sapphire paint is being “picked up” by the dark blue colored floor

Until next blog post,
Kanweienea Kreations