Post by Tim on Mar 15, 2008 23:35:18 GMT -5
Since I feel like I am never going to have any time to draw anymore I thought I would post something I just finished recently.
Of course there is always a story :
The pictures below shows an antique saddle made of wood I think for a camel. It is quite an old piece and much of it is held together by gut . It belongs to a gentleman who uses it as a foot stool. It was his fathers' and holds a huge amount of sentimental value. It is used at his cottage up North ( yes we Canadians refer to cottage country or summer house as up north ) .
This past summer my customer and his wife had company up . They brought a dog with them and left the dog to his own devices. So of course the dog could sense the rawhide string holding the piece together and decided that it would make a nice chew toy.
The end results
All the white areas are wood filler . There was hardly anything left of the knobs which need to be filled and reshaped. replacing it with real wood would have be far too costly and time consuming. I mix earth pigments with lacquer thinner and add a flat lacquer .I then pour this into a small cup that attaches to my airbrush and I gently build up colour to hide the wood filler.
When it has set I take some sandpaper and strike back the colour so that it blends a bit better with it's surroundings. I try and make my repairs as invisible as possible. My client was really worried that it would not be able to be repaired.
As a side note the owners of the dog didn't even apologize or offer to pay to have it fixed.
Of course there is always a story :
The pictures below shows an antique saddle made of wood I think for a camel. It is quite an old piece and much of it is held together by gut . It belongs to a gentleman who uses it as a foot stool. It was his fathers' and holds a huge amount of sentimental value. It is used at his cottage up North ( yes we Canadians refer to cottage country or summer house as up north ) .
This past summer my customer and his wife had company up . They brought a dog with them and left the dog to his own devices. So of course the dog could sense the rawhide string holding the piece together and decided that it would make a nice chew toy.
The end results
All the white areas are wood filler . There was hardly anything left of the knobs which need to be filled and reshaped. replacing it with real wood would have be far too costly and time consuming. I mix earth pigments with lacquer thinner and add a flat lacquer .I then pour this into a small cup that attaches to my airbrush and I gently build up colour to hide the wood filler.
When it has set I take some sandpaper and strike back the colour so that it blends a bit better with it's surroundings. I try and make my repairs as invisible as possible. My client was really worried that it would not be able to be repaired.
As a side note the owners of the dog didn't even apologize or offer to pay to have it fixed.