I have a few newly-finished pieces to go to the market on Friday, just in time for the long weekend. I FINALLY got my gallery wrapped canvasses in last week and drove them up on Saturday morning.
Sorry for the bad quality of the photos tonight. Not great advertising for a photographer, I know! I had to take them with my i-phone because I forgot to bring my real camera...
Hard to tell in the sunshine but this dresser has been painted a light grey and dark grey. I decided to keep the hardware and paint it as well. There would have been way to many holes to fill plus I really like the original hardware on this one...
This two-tiered table would be a cute end table or bedside table. I painted it an off-white colour, did a little bit of distressing on it then sealed it with some hemp seed oil...
Remember this old dirty bookcase? I cleaned it all up, put some nice walnut stain on it and then sealed it with some hemp-seed oil. I love the rustic look of it. Great for storing games, etc. at the cottage or
even, well, books?
I really like working with the hemp-seed oil. It literally has no smell and is all natural. Some of the older, drier pieces like the bookcase above are really thirsty and just absorb it as I am applying it. I still do use poly-urethane on pieces that I know are going to get used a lot, especially tables and tops of dressers, etc. but I prefer using the natural products like the hemp-seed oil and waxes. I was on a deadline a few weeks ago and had to finish a few pieces that needed the "poly", it wouldn't stop raining and even when it wasn't raining for a few minutes here and there it was windy and cold so I was forced to finish them in the house. I did have the windows open but WOW the fumes!! It is a great protector for anything wood but I found out that they aren't kidding when they say "use in a well-ventilated area". By the time I went to bed that night I had a wicked headache and I felt like my heart was racing out of my chest! I think the house smelled for about 3 days! It is all a learning process and I won't do that again...
This is my project for tomorrow, after pics will follow ~
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