and zoom…it’s October and so much of life has passed by that it is almost impossible to catch up. Hang on to your hats, here we go on a visual tour of how I spent my time.
Painting
The last two or is it three months have been filled with paint, brushes and furniture. I have been lucky enough to ruin almost all my jeans, shorts and t-shirts due to painting. Thank goodness we are at the end of the hot season and I won’t need to replace them any time soon. I usually look like I lost a fight with a three year old after finger painting. Lots of painting and different pieces of furniture. Pricing small vintage bits and pieces to round out the Chocolate Dog Studio version of Vintage Market Days here in Tulsa has also been filling my time.
I paint each and every piece freehand. There are no stencils or decals used in any of these pieces. Each piece of furniture is coated with a clear coating to make it durable and useful.
These are most of the pieces that will be at Vintage Market Days here in Tulsa. There are several others that for one reason or another didn’t make it to the photo shoot. A nice large pub table and 6 matching chairs. There are also room dividers, a china cabinet and also an old radio cabinet that was needing a makeover. It has been so much fun to paint so many different types of furniture in such a short time frame but I have to admit that I couldn’t have done this without my trusted assistant Angie who sands and primes almost all of the furniture pieces before painting. She does a huge amount of work for me and I want to make sure that she gets due praise and credit for all of the work that she does.
I hope to see you soon at Vintage Market Days October 18-20 in Tulsa.
Talk to you later,
Karen
P.S. Thank you to Jenny Thomas for taking my studio photos! She does an awesome job.