I have a BIG thing at the moment for ornate gold picture or photos frames and I don’t have a clue where it’s come from, I seem to be going from being a minimalist to a maximalist in my old age!
This is what started it, (above) I couldn’t resist the cherubs as the feet. It’s not that heavy and cost me just £1 from my favourite Evesham charity shop, well anything that costs less than a pot of tea for one has to be a bargain.
Then a few weeks later I found this monstrosity in the same shop, again for just £1, but this one weighs a ton. I think it’s made of resin. I’m not sure if someone had already had a dabble with it with some cream paint, but whatever, it was awful but with potential ………
…….. nothing that a couple of coats of DecoArt Glorious Gold, metallic, acrylic paint couldn’t fix!
The painting was actually a lot more fiddly than I first anticipated, I kept on missing hidden, hard to get a paintbrush into crevices, but I got there in the end.
Ta dah ……..It’s absolutely gorgeous now, like something King Charles would have gracing his photo table, I just need to find a picture to put in it ……
….. and I think it wouldn’t hurt to paint the back now too as it’s a bit of a mess, even if no one will actually see it.
