Angel Wings

I've always wanted to find a pair

of carved wooden angel wings

wait

 let me rephrase that...

i've found carved angel wings

what I haven't found is a pair

 I could actually afford

well one day while blogging 

Kerri came across where some
of you guys are making them out of cardboard

and like a best friend would she immediately
told me the good news...

SOOOOO

 here is my labour of love to replicate a pair

of wooden carved angel wings

And I do mean labour of love...

it's taken me quite a while

to cut all of the pieces....

and a few blisters

 (no cuts thank goodness)

The first thing I did was

instruct sweet husband to

dig the really big train table box

out of our neighbors trash one cold morning...

have I ever told you all what a good sport he is.

Second step I drew an angel wing

on one side of the box than flipped

 it over to the other side of the box

and traced a matching wing.

Cut them both out and then

started cutting out the "feathers"

from additional cardboard boxes.

Many.....Many.....Many

feathers later

(and days...maybe even a  week or two later)

I was finally able to start painting it.

I started with a linen acrylic color mixed with a little water

and used a dry brush technique

I followed that with the same technique

and a white acrylic

Then a little brown mixed with the white

And then back to the straight white

It didn't take very long at all....



The idea was to give it the look of

old distressed wood.

But if that's not your thing...

try gold and brown

or silver and a little black

maybe even a cool blue with silver and white

What ever your style I think

you could make it work.

The Savannah Bird Girl

with her wings on

I'm thinking these might have to

stay up all year long...

 they turned out really well for

a free project!

I'm linking up to

At Between Naps on the Porch