Mushroom bowls in blue – reworked
Regular readers may well recall these bowls in their original form, you can see them here. As then they were blue, and they are finished with varnish. What is different is the depth of the ’sub-coat’ I apply to these pieces, the method in which the paint was applied and finally the varnish used is a much tougher and much higher gloss variety.
In all honesty I was never satisfied with the bowls, despite the compliments (thanks!), and when I brought them out at one of our recent craft fayres I was compelled to immediately re-wrap them and return them to the crate from whence they came!
With everything that’s been going on of late I struggled to get them finished, but the final coat of varnish is dry and we even managed a wee drop of winter sunshine to get some piccies taken … sunshine makes me happy! Anyway, here are the bowls:
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10 December, 2009 6:15 pm 
