With all this miserable weather around, I fancied cheering myself up by painting something cheery and bright. This cupboard was just a plain white box before I started, I used Louis Blue which just doesn’t get used enough in my opinion for the body of the piece and Old White for the inset panel to the front. With a graphic downloaded for free from the wonderful Graphics Fairy website which I customised (see it’s from Sevenoaks, my home town now!) to fit nicely in the space.
Using Annie Sloan Decoupage Varnish for the transfer and Annie Sloan Craqueleur to get that lovely old oil painting effect I finished the piece off with Soft Clear Wax and Soft Dark Wax, which really shows off the cracks and details.
If you want to learn how to do this, why don’t you sign up to one of our workshops (or your local Annie Sloan stockist) where we’ll show you how it’s done. For a great deal on all the materials you’ll need for this project and more – check out our new Complete Furniture Painting Kit Bundle! Only available online. Happy Painting!
Good post. TY for sharing.
Hi
I love this so I thought i would try it myself. I painted my dresser in duck egg blue and two pannels in a light versaille . It was my fist time of transferring an image but had a few problems which i hope you can help me with.
I found that when printing an image the pixalls may be blurred. I went and found the image from the original source and it was ok but slightly different.
I used two pieces of A4 paper and no matter how close you join them i found i could still see where it had been put together. How can I avoid this.
I left the image on over night. Could you tell me the best way of taking this off as i found when i wet the paper some of the image peeled away. Do you use a cloth or sponge etc…
Donna
i liked this so much i thought i would try it myself. I had a few problems with the transfer but the end result was good. Donna Eller