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Don't listen to me.

3/12/2013

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I told everybody that painting that chair was so much work, that I would never do that again.  It was a good experience - but too much work.
So, what did I do?
I bought a SOFA at a garage sale to paint.
I really really really debated about buying it.   
The lines are simple and clean and the material is like denim, which is just about like canvas.
I bought it and now I have to paint it.
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I put it on the porch to paint it.

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Quickly realized it needed to be up higher or my back was gonna do me in...

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I started blending colors onto the uh, canvas...

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Realized the porch was too cold and too narrow to work on this - brought it in and put it on my work table.

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More blending of colors.

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It was looking too boring so I spiffed it up.

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This was getting better.  Then I thought that I would put in big blocks of white to counter balance the similar sized patches of blue and green.

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ARGHHH!
Now it looks like a flock of birds pooped all over it!
Big birds too!

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OK then.
I will start over.

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 A fresh base for a new painting/sofa.

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I am not so good at photoshop - but in order to not paint this whole sofa AGAIN, I wanted to get an idea of colors and shapes to see what I would like.

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Or something like this....

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I painted the top edge lime green and the back and sides, I painted shades of orange from dark to lighter at the top.

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Oh my gosh!
Two coats of primer white on each pillow.  Two sides to each pillow and cushion.  This is getting to be a big big BIG project.

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A leap of faith on 
making these lines.  
 Looks like a bar code couch  here. 
 Ewwwww.

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Ahhhh.... better.....

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I am liking this part here!

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Trying to imagine orange pillows.
Stay tuned....

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