Thursday, March 20, 2025

Painting my little evil side table, and I'm stuck.

 I am in the process of making and end table for my couch.


All the details, measurements and cut lists, yada yada yada will be coming soon. But I am stuck on the painting.


I painted the base a deep purple. The top will be natural wood. Maple, I think. I will just oil and wax that, so I think it will have a nice contrast with the deep purple base.


I wanted something more interesting on the side and I thought a little floral painting would be nice. But I need to make it a little more funky, because that's me, so I wanted to paint a skull at the bottom. I meant to paint it more cartoony, like the flowers, but it came out different. And I love it. But I love the flowers too. The problem is that they don't really match in style anymore and I can't decide if that works for me or not.



Here is a time lapse of the painting:


Should I fix it? Does it need fixing? I'm stuck!! 

Please comment and let me know what you think.

I made a simple, but somewhat evil little sofa table.

I made a little end table to go at the end of my couch. I needed a place to put my coffee, wine, margarita, whatever, don't judge me. Un...