Family Room Update

Over the weekend, I let myself have a little fun for my b-day and work on the family room wall. So I kicked off early doing yard work and decided to design some industrial sized bolts for the Door. I mean how else would the trim stay on?

First Step figure out what I wanted the bolts to look like. You can see some early sketches on the right before deciding on something with a giant flat head screwdriver style.
Using some card stock I made a basic design template to use with the Airbrush. And cut the pieces out with my favorite X-Acto knife. Notice the soft pencil grips on the handle, if you got to cut out stencils for any amount of time, these are a hand savor.
The square piece was exactly the width of the door trim, so when I trace the circles on the trim they are always centered, and no extra measuring needed

Light pencil marks around the frame, about a foot apart from each other.

Using only the large square piece and small center piece with a hole cut out in it’s center that tape will fill to hold this piece down. Just the basic shadowing was added first to help define my working areas.

Now only using the large square template the highlight was added around the bolt head. Then the middle circle template was used to add the light reflection in a curve. The same middle piece was used to add the main highlight over the top of each bolt head. Used just a plane piece of paper for the clean edge of the ‘slot’ with more white, with more white towards the top of the bolt if possible.

A little more black was added to bring the bolt head back to the same tone as the sunken hole.

That’s all for now. Over all I think it works well with the rest of the wall, and will have to add more of these bolt head else ware, so I’ll keep the templates for now. I’m still going to need some water staining and darken the overall look of the door/frame, but it’s definitely getting there.
The only two paints I used was transparent black and solid white, and took roughly 3 hours including template making. Next I think I will attack that lower right hand corner and gussy it up a bit.

Read the first part of the story here.