Creative Furniture Upcycling for Beginners
Painting Your Final Designs
A course by Joanne Condon , Furniture Artist and Upcycler
About the video: Painting Your Final Designs
Overview
“Now it's time to put our sketch work from Unit 2 into practice. Using the designs from your sketches, begin to transfer these patterns onto your piece of furniture to bring them to life. This is the exciting part where you can see all your planning come together.”
In this video lesson Joanne Condon addresses the topic: Painting Your Final Designs, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Furniture Upcycling for Beginners. Breathe new life into old furniture and design unique pieces that reflect your personal style using innovative upcycling techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we're going to paint the pattern onto the piece of furniture. If you wanted to keep your piece of furniture one color, you could give it a second coat, just like I showed you on the previous lesson. But I am going to use pattern on my overall piece. So I really like from the sketch number three, the stripes and the spots. So I'm going to start that on this section here. Just before you use the paint, make sure that you give the tin a shake first. I'm going to paint straight from the tin. because I'm not going to be using a small amounts of colors. And if I pour this paint in...”
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Course summary for: Creative Furniture Upcycling for Beginners
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Arts & Crafts, Decorative Painting, DIY, Furniture Design & Making, Furniture Restoration & Upcycling, Interior Design, Upcycling, Woodworking
Joanne Condon
A course by Joanne Condon
Joanne Condon is an award-winning furniture artist and upcycler. Her passion for creativity began at a very young age. She attended art classes on the weekends and even painted Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night on her bedroom ceiling in her early teens. She went on to hone her craft by studying and teaching art for several years. Later, Joanne discovered her love for upcycling in particular after buying a house and struggling to find the unique and colorful furniture she wanted to fill it with. Her vibrant upcycled pieces soon attracted attention and enabled her to set up a furniture business of her own in 2011.
Joanne teaches the upcycling techniques she has learned both in-person and online at classes around Ireland. She was the upcycling expert for RTE’s Today Show for a number of years and has won several awards including Best Workshop and Best DIY and Upcycling Account. Joanne has also published her own book, Furniture Crush, in which she shares her expertise in paper form.
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