Linen and lace - for Emily

I took a LONG break for Christmas, and now it's back to my lovely hobby of painting, painting, painting.

I have been busy these past couple of weeks, and what I've been doing is painting linen-and-lace on a lazy-susan for my dear friend, Emily.

Emily, I hope you like this!

The finished lazy susan - at least, the lace-painting bit is finished! Now, it's coat after coat of varnish!

I am not good at tracing patterns. So, I cut holes in the pattern I sort-of free-handed, and then drew in the bits and pieces.

Here it is, all outlined, and the 'linen' bits shaded in - all ready for painting.

The linen bits all done. Now, for the best part: painting on the lace!!

Right now, it has already had about two coats of topcoat. At least a couple more coats are needed. Maybe more.

As you can note from the picture, I did an outline of the lazy-susan's round, and then folded it to get my sectors. From there, I sorta put in where I wanted the 'linen' bits. Then, I cut out these bits, so that I could outline the pattern onto the board, and see what I was doing! I can never simply trace something - I'll usually find that I've left vital bits out, or find a whole chunk of stuff is missing :(

The linen bits are done in watered-down paint. The lace is thick paint. I used water-based acrylic paint for both the background - burnt umber - and titanium white for the linen and lace.