DIY Palm Tree, Hand Painted Palm Tree Decor with Paper Leaves Made From a Wooden Interior Column

This palm tree is a funky piece of art I was commissioned to make for a surf shop.

For the trunk, I used a wooden column and I built the base from plywood, adding
casters to make it easy to move around.
I applied a mosaic on the base using red penny tiles.

The leaves were handmade using commercial fryer filters,
which are basically big, thick, textured sheets of paper.

For the leaf stems, I started with long wired, stemmed foliage from a craft store, ripped off the flowers/leaves that were on them and used that stem for the palm leaves.

I cut a leaf shape from the paper filters and glued two leaves together with a stem in between.
I left plenty of stem exposed at the end so I could stick them into the tree.

I gave the leaves a funky blue and green paint finish and also created
 palm tree berries (they have berries right?) from a Christmas ornament
spray and painted them red to give a little pop of color.

I painted the column and added some swirls and attached the leaves
by drilling holes at the top of the column to attach the stems.

If you look closely, you can see a fence post finial I used at the top of the column
to finish it off.

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