Introduction And Timeline

[jrmz]

Thank you Ray and Monica. I appreciate it.

Really learning a lot from this place.

This is the wallet for my other brother.

When I first painted it, the colors were way too bright and vivid so instead of letting the resist dry over night I only gave it a couple of hours. The antiquing penetrated just enough to give the whole helmet a somber look

[jrmz]

First major blunder

I'm guessing the coat of resist wasn't thick/even enough so when I got the antiquing on it penetrated too much and made it look blotched. When trying to fix it by adding more antique, the saturation erased some of the details in the carving. Oh we'll, I guess ill chalk it up to lessons learned. I wonder if using undiluted resolene as resist would give me a more consistent coat