silver chair

I have three chairs in my cellar waiting for a new life. I know this one is going to take some time and effort, but I wanted to get started on it. The wooden framework I got just like you see it at a charity shop. It´s oak, I believe, and is newly made and has not been upholstered at all before. A cute little rococo-thing

I decided that I wanted to make it into a silver chair. (I know, I´m a little behind the fashion, but who cares)

I painted piece by piece with silver acrylic paint, and while the paint was still wet, I added silver-leaf. This is real silver I believe, because I got it years ago in Jaipur, India, where the silversmiths had hammered the metal into incredibly thin sheets. It acted differently than the cheap metal-leaf I´ve been working on on the back-drop-picture, that´s for sure. As you can see, it´s very flaky, and needs to dry 24 hours before I can brush off the excess silver, and start on layer two.

It might take some time for me to finish this chair though, not because it´s a lot of work, but because there is so much else going on around here. I´m busy. I´m lucky. Any freelancer who is busy is lucky.