Ornaments

[Bobby McCarley]

Getting ready for the Holiday season with some ornaments. Our club has an ornament exchange at it's December meeting, a local Arts Center is having a fund raiser and looking for local artist to donate ornaments to be auctioned off. Just trying to get ahead of the season rush. They include two Sputnik Urchin ornaments one with black dyed Maple finials and one with black painted finial, a mushroom shaped urchin ornament with black dyed Maple finial and a bell ornament, painted black and accented with iridescent paint.

Bobby
Louisiana

[Bill Howatt]

Very nice work!
The sputnik shells are pretty tough but the urchin ones can be rather thin. Do you reinforce them at all? I have heard of some people putting non-expanding foam spray in them and also painting with epoxy. I've done neither but they are fragile.

[Tim Elett]

Really nice work, inspiring.

[Bobby McCarley]

I coat the inside with several coats of Mod Podge and spray lacquer on the outside.

Bobby
Louisiana

[Maurice Mcmurry]

Cant walk, Running, Christmas Time's a Coming! Those are excellent!

[Walter Mooney]

Very nice work Bobby, especially on the finials! Really well done. You could give classes on finials :D