Monday, August 22, 2005

flames are harder than they look

First of all, yes, I do still have a half-dozen dove decoys attached to my car.



When I moved back down to Norman I didn't have a computer desk, and the ones back home were too big to bring down or were in use. so I needed to find one. Mike and I looked around for a bit and found a couple of old ones in his garage/shed. The one I set my sights on was in pretty crummy condition. I knew we were going to have to fix it up, so I figured I would paint some flames on it to make it look really really really really fast. I forgot to take picture of it before we did all the dirty work, so I'll just hit the key points. It had been sitting on the bare ground in the shed and was covered in dust and dirt. There were very large unidentifiable insects crawling all over it. The bottom board had about 10,000 worm larvae looking things living in it, so we knocked it out and threw it as far away from us as we could.

After cleaning it up real nice we sanded it down, painted the inside royal blue, and painted the exterior a calming baby chicken blue.



Now came the hard part.. drawing the flames to make a stencil. It took me about 1.5 hours and alot of rejection from mike before finalizing the flames. Badda bing badda boom, we had a stencil.



We threw on a layer of pink followed by a layer of purple



After getting both halves painted, I sanded it down to give it a worn beachy look. Aaaaand here she is...
Thanks to Mike for his unfailing assistance and big muscles.

6 Comments:

Blogger chap said...

man, that desk has made my wildest dreams come true

6:56 PM  
Blogger brian smith said...

That looks more like a half-a-bookshelf on its side than a desk. Whats with that center divider? The flames do look nice though.

8:22 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

haha, thanks chap. the center divder thing separates the "feet area" from the "computer area". there used to be a board on the bottom of the computer area (right side) to set your cpu on, but it was the board that was maggot infested, so it was removed. i will never be sad about the creation of this masterpiece, it will have a special place in my heart forever.

1:49 PM  
Blogger BBC said...

I kinda wish the purple part was orange.

3:10 PM  
Blogger BBC said...

But I like the idea very much, and the flames look nice.

3:10 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i thought about orange.. i thought if i went orange, the next logical thing would be to fade it to yellow, and that was a color scheme i wasnt very interested in

3:44 PM  

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