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Two portraits of Mythical Characters


FrankEV

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Nice!  I like the Santa a little better, his expression is that "HE" may have been a little naughty himself!  I may have to get that pattern.  I wanted to do another one this year on a wood slice like I did last year but with a different Santa.  I would probably have to reduce it a little smaller to fit on the wood slice. 

This was my one from last year.  I used red felt as the backer. 

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1 hour ago, flarud said:

Nice!  I like the Santa a little better, his expression is that "HE" may have been a little naughty himself!  I may have to get that pattern.  I wanted to do another one this year on a wood slice like I did last year but with a different Santa.  I would probably have to reduce it a little smaller to fit on the wood slice. 

This was my one from last year.  I used red felt as the backer. 

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Very nice.  I guess the red wasn't too half baked and idea.

The Alex Fox pattern was more detailed than many of the Santa portraits that were available.  I'm not sure Santa was his "Jolly Old Self" when he posed. 😉   

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23 hours ago, FrankEV said:

The season is fast approaching, so I thought it fitting to add to my Christmas projects.   This first portrait is an 11X14 Alex Fox Santa pattern cut in 5/32" solid core Maple plywood with a 1/4" thick solid core Mahogany plywood backer stained with Minwax Barn Red.  The panel is finished using multiple coat of clear gloss spray Lacquer.  A majority of the cutting was done using Pegas #0 spiral blades   The panel is set loose in a simple custom Poplar frame that is painted dark rattle spray can Hunt Club Green.

I had a difficult time choosing which to use, a standard black backer or the red backer as both looked good to me.  So I let my lady, Robin, chose and she selected the Red.  She also suggested the green frame. 

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My second portrait was inspired by recent postings by Woodrush of his very well done Jim Blume Pattern Gandalf.   I have had the H. Botas Gandalf pattern in my "TO DO" pile for a while, but I kind of liked the background on the JB version slightly better.  However, I was unable to find the JB pattern so I used Inkscape to modify the HB pattern to be similar and fit an 11x14 panel.  When comparing the two patterns, I did note that the HB pattern was quite a bit more detailed and required a lot of holes.

This cutting was also done in solid core 5/32" Maple plywood with a 1/8" BB backer painted rattle spray can Gloss Black.  All cutting was done using Pegas #2/0 spiral blades and the panel was again finished with multiple coats of clear gloss spray Lacquer.  The panel is set loose in a custom Poplar frame that I distressed and stained with Minwax Espresso (dark brown -  almost black) and then protected it with multiple coats of clear spray Polyurethane. 

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Love them both. Great work

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