I was sold immediately.
I would paint the outside of the box red, the inside black, the inner rim yellow, and paint the badge on the top. Then a couple coats of shellac over the whole thing.
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| 2 coats of black paint on the inside. Will have to clean up the rims for the yellow. |
It was at this point where I realized I needed to change tact with the red paint. It was going on translucent and streaky. After a quantity of cussing and mixing, I figured it out.
Next up came the badge. It was a horse. I haven't drawn a horse in 20 years. This called for practice, and fast practice since I was on a tight deadline.
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| Horse ankles. So lovely, so frustrating. |
Once comfortable with the drawing, the text, and the scale, it was time to recreate it on the box. I painted the badge shape in gesso, then used yellow pencil crayon to section off the badge and sketch in the horse.
The horse and the text got a first layer of black paint, then I painted the whole badge yellow. Once the yellow was complete, I reworked the horse and text to be flat black. After that, it was only a matter of putting in the green stripe on the top.
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| Final product |
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| View of the inside |
