over the last month, i've worked on one of the most detailed decoupage projects that i've ever made: a large chest of drawers with decoupage, lino printing, metal leaf, and wood staining. here are some pictures of the completed project. in a few days i will put up an essay and a slideshow which will document the process, to give you an idea of how a project evolves.
i don't know how the colours will come out on individual computers. the wood is stained in blue, teal and purple with a pink-red undertone. i know that in some of my own pictures i wasn't satisfied with the colour resolution. some of them were taken inside, and some outside; overall i found that some of the pictures had a dominant bluish tone while others have a predominantly yellowish tone. so there is already some colour distortion. the reality, as with much else in life, is somewhere in between!
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| front view. the horizontal 'frame' of the chest is first painted in blue shaded into teal, then lino printed in two stages: a double roll of white and peach-pink, and a partial overprinting in copper. the vertical parts of the frame are decoupage cuttings using photographs. |
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| another front view |
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| an 'aerial' view of the top. the centre features photos of frescoes, the borders are composed of photos made into a frieze, and the corners are metal leaf overprinted with lino blocks |
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| close up of lino printing, wood staining and printed highlights over the wood stain, after varnishing. |
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| detail from the top of the chest |
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| view of side panel. this picture was taken before varnishing, and before i painted the feet of the chest |
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