Zainab's Art Adventures

Hello, bloggers! It's good to be back again. (My papers are not over, but the English ones are. I'm sure I'll pass with a B. Or perhaps a C. Or D. Or E. You never know...) OK, so this is a table I built with my younger brother, Ibraheem . It took a couple of days to make(but Ibraheem keeps 'mending' it, so you can guess it has lots of faults. However, the legs are the real problem. They keep swaying and sometimes come off loose :/) Anyways, it's not so bad. I still kind of like its design. The top was originally my idea, with gaps between little planks of wood. And we both came up with the idea for the leg's structure.  However, I'm glad that despite the many conflicts, the table is not so bad ;P 

These frames I made earlier on last year but forgot to share on this blog. But as I am about to give away one of them, I decided to share photos of them here, because they took so much time and energy to make. This photo frame I made first. It is rather simple, but it looks great, doesn't it? I painted it with poster paints(mixed with a bit of silver dust to add a soft shine) and made a simple pattern with contrasting orange. And this one I made after that. One Unique thing about it is that it has curved sides, which I have never done before. It is all shaped with a filer, and I had fun doing that. :D I painted several layers of blue paint on it(mixed with German White Glue) which made it quite opaque. I glued on a pretty blue butterfly to decorate.

This is a stool that I made long ago, when I was almost 10 years old, at a Wood Work course that we attended at  L2L Academy  where we learnt to make furniture (stools, chairs and tables,etc.) without nails and glue. This demanded quite a lot of hard work and took more than 24 hours to make. I used to love my Stool but then it was very weak so it was retired to a corner of the house and we never used it.  A few weeks ago, I decided to show it to my little cousin and took it out. Upon assembling it, I realized what useful it was. I decided to knock in some nails and glue it together and find some use of it. It took barely an hour to renew it. I made a polish of my own by mixing water, German glue and silver and copper colored dust together and painted it over. It looks great, and is useful too. I'm glad I decided to do it!