Next, I just started doing some painting here and some painting there.
I used a couple different blues, a teal color and white by the time I was all finished. No method to the madness, I just brushed it on where I thought it looked alright. I also drew out an anchor (kind of hard to see in the picture below since it was in pencil) I used some cups and nail polish around the house as templates for the circles, a ruler for the straight edges and free handed the rest...so it's not symmetrical at all.
This was the longest part, wood burning. I used a shading tool and it took FOREVER!
It didn't come out as dark as I wanted it but that's okay.
I used both chalk paint and regular paint but decided to try and make it a bit more rustic by adding some clear and dark wax over the top.
Next I tied some 3 ply jute around the boards. I wrapped it around 5 times, since there are 5 boards....just seems fitting I guess. I secured the jute in place with hot glue. A girl is nowhere without a hot glue gun. You can also see I added some picture hangers to the back as well.
And there you have it, all finished. Sorry the lighting is a bit poor, looks darker than this in person. Maybe in some natural day light the true colors will show through, we'll see when I get it hung on the wall.
Hung up in my room.
