08/05/2026
I finished another 2 projects. One is already hanging on the fence. I started on restoring the pieces that were hanging on the fence, that I can set up the solar light that I want to put up on it. Both are metal. The hummingbirds were painted before in similar colors when I bought about 3 1/2 years ago, it just faded very badly. I sure on it only metallic acrylic paints. Eric helped me to polish the plastic, that we can actually can read the numbers again, which was absolutely impossible before. I made the before picture, after I had started already painted the birds, they looked as pale as the flowers did before I started with them For the owl I didn’t want to use to many colors. I just picked a nice brown as the main color, a copper on the beak and the feet and the forest I used a golden bronze. I used a sponge technique, to get the little washed out look on it after the outlining. For the eyes I used a metallic yellow and black, surround with the golden bronze.
