"After"
This is how it started, it was on the side of the road, so I grabbed it
.
Excuse Ace, he was admiring himself as cats do.
I decided to paint it dark brown....
Ewwww,
It reminded me of Elvis and velvet paintings
so I decided to change it up.
I used the jigsaw and cut off random pieces...,
like they may have been broken off... then randomly sprayed
areas with a rust colored spray paint over the brown finish.
I used the flour treatment on the frame for a super aged effect.
I sprayed oven cleaner in random areas on the back of the mirror
to eat away the protective coating and give an aged look to the
mirror as well.
Then I repainted the frame with layers of color.
Did you know that it's hard to take a picture of a mirror without yourself in it?
Well...it is, so ignore the girl in the painted up clothes
You can't see very well where the mirror is "aged" from the oven cleaner, but it's there!
Going for the rusted, pitted, wrought iron look,
Using the flour really gives it that realistic aged, look.
I happen to like it now...much more interesting to me.
What do you think, would you have left it alone?
This one of a kind mirror is sold.
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Lucy the mirror looks great I did kinda the same with old wooden windows.I want to come see our shop someday.TTYL Marc
ReplyDeleteAmazing Mirror! I love it when things turn out awesome - especially after a 'fail' lol :)
ReplyDeleteI never would have thought to cut off some of the pieces. It made a huge difference. And I love the painting effect.
ReplyDeleteAmazing, love the new/old look. It really does look like wrought iron ~ how do you do that?!...
ReplyDeleteLove the mirror, glad you decided to make changes. Also mosiac box is beautiful
ReplyDeleteLove the mirror, glad you decided to change it. Mosiac box is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE it! I think you're amazing! Where do you come up with your artistic techniques? Flour and water...oven cleaner....so interesting. You should write a book on your techniques. I'd buy it.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Love how you aged it, and made it look like old rusty iron!
ReplyDelete~Amanda
I like the "after" much better, great job. I also love the knobs you added to the mosaic box, last post. It takes it from nice to extraordinary.
ReplyDeleteI thought I was here before..because I remember the blog name:) Already a friend.
ReplyDeleteWhat products and paint colors did you use for this? This look is exactly what I'm going for with a piece but I don't know what to use...
ReplyDeleteIts been awhile back but I spray painted with either a dark brown or oil rubbed bronze, can't remember which. Then I layered with black, rust and brown craft paints over the flour treatment.
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