It was recently my very good, old friend's birthday. "Old" as in "earliest", not as an adjective to describe her. She showed this awesome painting video to me and so I decided to replicate it as a birthday gift for her.
First bought a wooden jewelry box (3D triangle?) and little wooden add-ons.
Gallons of paint!
Glued the circle on top of the box and painted everything black.
Let the pouring begin!
It's like a trippy paint waterfall!
Ta-da!
After this I stopped, although I wanted to keep going since it was pretty fun to pour paint and watch it.
I wasn't quite sure what would happen....
Would gravity keep pulling the paint until nothing was left?
Would it miraculously know that I wanted it to just STOP after my last pour?
I don't know.
I just left it the corner of our living room for a few days to dry....
This is what I came back to...
:(
It looks like molten lava poo.
Needless to say, I was upset.
What started off as a fun, colorful project ended up looking like every color puked all over the other colors.
Was I to throw away my less-than-expected project??
Nahh. That option's for quitters.
I quickly tried thinking of ways to revamp it.
Something needed to stand out against the darkness.
And so I went over the box with silver quotes.
They're about friendship. Call me cheesy, go ahead.
My friend and I have written quotes/lyrics on other items before (aka denim jeans) so it fit a previous theme.
Glued the flower on the inside.
Then decorated with some pearl stickers.
I placed pictures of the process in the box so that my friend could see the before and after.
I kinda like the new, vintage-y, dark, lava look.
Note: Do NOT use tempura paint if recreating this.
If I ever obtain enough acrylic paint I'm going to redo this.
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