Easter Porch Board - Admitting Mistakes

Needs work! 

This is a four foot board about 10" wide. 

First it was washed with light blue. Let that dry. Then sketched the Gnome in chalk. Mistake? I used bright pink chalk that was hard to cover & hard to wipe the extra off. 

After sketching it was just coloring in. 

If I had to do over here's my list of needed corrections or changes;

Darker background

Hat bigger/longer

Background beard with violet before adding long white hair so it has more depth. 

The green in the hat needs to be smoother. 

Lettering would have been better if the background was darker or done on the Silhouette so they're more even.

Easter Egg needs to be decorated. 

Hands outlined

When working in a width of 10 inches you have to keep everything narrow. If I was painting this on a wider piece I would have had more room to make the hat a little floppy and made ears angle off to the side and maybe a few more eggs around him. I did decide on purple shoes because there's a little green grass by his feet. I almost gave him a pink hat but that would have had to be darker than the ears and nose. Not sure that would have popped too much/little. 

Next? I need a bunny on a porch board. 

 

Bird Bath Cover Up

There was this ugly sewer tap in thing in our back yard. I hated it from the minute we moved in and thought long and hard on how to cover it up.

So, what does every back yard need besides a bird feeder to attract those cute little feathered beauties? 

A Bird Bath, of course! 

Hubby made this box from plywood. Just cut four equal pieces and nailed them together to fit around that sewer pipe.

Next; Bright blue spray paint. 

Then I took chalk and drew some flowers and birds and painted on some whimsy. 

After it was all done I used a spray sealer with UV protection so it would withstand the rain and sun. 

Once that was dry we glued on one of those bottoms to a flower pot. I think it was maybe $3 in Lowes. We used an all weather glue to hold up to the elements. 

Finished! Easy Peasy Bird Bath Cover Up!