Hello Fall and Welcome

FrankEV · August 28, 2022

The following plaques are all 1/8” thk BB Ply cut panels mainly using Pegas #1 MGT R blades and mounted onto 1/2” sanded ply backers and intended to be hung outdoors. These projects were all rather quick cuts. Cut panels and backers are painted with combination of Krylon Spray Can Paints and Artist Acrylics. After assembly, the finished plaques were protected with multiple coats of rattle can spray Clear Gloss Polyurethane.

Most of the cutting were positive images that I used the “washer” method to create backers that were slightly larger and perimeter and parallel to the cuttings. The exception was the 'Hello Fall' Image that is a negative resulting in a rectangular panel that I mounted permanently in a 3/4” wide rabbeted pine frame stained Minwax Honey. I could have simply rounded or chamfered the corners and left as a plaque like the others, but I just prefer to hide the exposed edges, of this style plywood/panel plaque, with a frame.

The patterns were repurchased in downloadable zipp files that contained various JPG, PDF, SVG along with some other files. They are stencil patterns that I slightly modified to make more scrollable and added the words ’Hello Fall’ or ‘Welcome’ to. I purchased other stencil patterns at the same time, but they are predominantly Halloween images, and I was looking mainly for Fall.

The Pumpkin in a Hat Image is for my Grandson for his new home and it will serve for both Fall and Halloween. I’ll hang the Bat on my house for a short time around Halloween. Halloween is very quiet in in our neighborhood with very few “Trick or Treaters”.

I don’t really consider these pieces to be in the “ART” category. So, they were not made to be sold. They are all gifts to Myself as well as my Son, Daughter, Grandson and my next door Neighbors. Hung for a few weeks until winter sets in and then put away until next year to be replaced with the Santa portraits I made for both myself and them last year.