I have finished painting the wood chair. This chair will be auctioned off in May for a charity. For my seascape painting I decided to use a beach path surrounded by a dune fence and have the fence posts be the back of the chair. I painted sand texture on the seat of the chair and added some seashells along with the footprints. I had the footprints get smaller as the path went further towards the water so it looked like the footprints were receding. This added some depth to the painting. I have a beach umbrella and 2 chairs on the sand and seagulls and sailboats in the distance. The legs and back of the chair I painted white and then painted a yellow glaze over the white and then dragged a grooved tool on the glaze to create small lines. It is a faux painting technique and I think it added interest to the rest of the chair. I then painted a matte finish over the entire chair to protect the finish.
This chair will be on display at the Lyme Tree Woman’s Exchange in Old Lyme for a few weeks. I will be painting more of these chairs and offering them for sale. I may be painting several different scenes on the chairs. I will also paint a particular scene if someone wants a specific picture on a chair.
For more details on the charity auction view previous posts for details. Thanks, and contact me at my email: pj@pjcookartist.com for more info on painting the chairs.
PJ the finished chair is breathtaking! We hope you will leave your blog up until after the auction (May 9) so we can get as many visitors to your site as possible and thus create even more excitement around the auction. Thanks again for so generously sharing your talent. You are helping us to change the lives of some very wonderful kids.
Mike and Sandy,
I enjoyed painting the chair and I’m glad you like the finished art. What is nice about painting on a chair is that it’s a usable piece of art! I hope the chair fetches a high price in the auction and I am looking forward to attending on May 9th.
Thanks,
P.J. Cook
Great blog, how about links exchanging? Please contact me asap, Thanks.