February 25, 2013
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Visiting Friends
Earl & Arlene – Sunday, February 17
While Cerwin and Earl were visiting in the living room, Arlene invited me to their breezeway to show me her latest project – painting flowers on crosscut pieces of fancy tree trunks.
If I remember correctly the four pansies were her earliest projects.
She takes pictures of flowers, then chooses one that matches the wood design.
An unpainted piece of tree trunk.
Notice the photo and the painting.
She plans to do some touch up painting on several of these - mostly highlighting and enlarging the center sections.
Some of these will go in their front yard this summer.
From Arlene:
The trees with flower shaped cuts are mostly cedar, gingko, or any shaped cuts close to the ground, preferably harder wood.
First: Sand the side to be painted. Then coat the entire piece of wood with clear polyurethane to seal it from decay and any insects. I use acrylic enamel indoor outdoor paint for the flower. After the flower is dry, paint it with another coat of polyurethane.
I am in awe of her ability to paint these – and how she sees flowers in each piece of wood.
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Thanks Earl and Arlene, we had a wonderful afternoon. We love you!
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Cerwin and I enjoyed the beautiful sky designs – created by the sunset as we traveled home.
Home – just before turning left into our driveway.
Comments (10)
The sunset pictures are beautiful, and the flowers are amazing! I wonder what kind of paint she uses.
The flowers are lovely — who’d have thought the patterns are so similar? The sunset was lovely that day — and the first cloud shot looks as if it has a silver lining!
Those are beautiful! How creative! My “new thing” is making rag rugs. I enjoy taking something that is no longer useful and making it useful again. Beautiful skies! We have sunshine today, and maybe we will have a pretty night sky, too. Last night the moon was so big, round and bright! It was lovely.
@ata_grandma - I asked her by email, and will get back to you.
@slmret - The cloud with the “silver lining” was the first thing about the sunset that captured our eyes.
@DanishDoll - I love when people come up with ideas on how to use something that is no longer useful.
@ata_grandma - From Arlene: I use acrylic enamel indoor outdoor paint, first coating the wood with polyurethane to seal it from decay and any insects. After painting it I give it a another coat of acrylic over the painted area.
@cerwindoris - She made a mistake in the information she first game me and added a few more details.
The trees with flower shaped cuts are mostly cedar, gingko, or any shaped cuts close to the ground, preferably harder wood.
First: Sand the side to be painted. Then coat the entire piece of wood with clear polyurethane to seal it from decay and any insects. I use acrylic enamel indoor outdoor paint for the flower. After the flower is dry, paint it with another coat of polyurethane.
What a unique craft ~ and such gorgeous clouds ~ :i-)
@fwren - I agree.