Every Cloud Is On the Wall

For anyone still interested, I put the finishing touches on my painting from last weekend.

I went out this morning and bought three rolls of two inch red oak iron on edging to apply around the outer edge of the door. It went on quite easily. I used a piece of kraft paper between the iron and edging to keep the glue from making a mess. Once it was on, I used a craft knife to trim it to the proper width and then sanded the edges to remove any splinters.

I’m glad I decided to stain the wood. I think it makes the piece fit better in the bedroom (plus it just looks so finished now). I was concerned about being able to get the stain right up against the edge of the painting without making a mess of it, but I managed pretty well and only crept outside of the lines once or twice. It’s hardly noticeable even to my overly critical eye.

Every Cloud

Every Cloud

Every Cloud

These pictures better show some of the subtle colors, but pictures just can’t capture what this thing is about. Not to toot my own horn, but it’s pretty impressive up on the wall.

Looking at it now, I sort of wish I had used a 36″ wide door, but once there’s a headboard underneath it to fill in some of the space, I don’t think that it’ll bother me anymore.

I’m really looking forward to getting some new furniture in there.

Every Cloud

So I’ve got this huge space between the two windows in my bedroom over my bed. I’d been looking for a piece of art to go there, but in the end decided to do something myself.

Every Cloud

At first I intended to do something Pollock-esque, but just couldn’t get it going. As I told Dave in IM this evening… There’s a whole lot more to that style than just throwing some paint on a canvas. In the end, I just relied on the texture to carry the work. There are some faint hints of of red and blue (that aren’t showing up in the picture).

I think I’ll call it “Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining.”

If you can’t tell, the canvas is actually a louon interior door (24″ x 80″). I’m going to get some iron-on veneer edging to clean up the outside edge and then I’ll put a couple of coats of polyurethane on the wood to make the mock frame really pop.

It’s far from what I was shooting for in the beginning, but I’m really pleased with how the finished piece looks. It’s been a very long time since I’ve done anything like this… probably twelve years, so I feel like it’s a good first step back into that world. It was incredibly enjoyable and now that I have the space to do this sort of thing again, I think I’ll be doing more and more.