Bee and Honeycomb

[FrankEV]

A purchased SVG file that required some work to make the pattern scrollable.  The Bee is a separate layer applied on top of the cut panel.  

The cut panel is 5/32” x 12” x 12” solid core Maple Ply affixed to a 1/4" x 12” x 12” BB Ply Backer.  The Bee is also 5/32” solid core Maple Ply. 

Coloring was done using my Air Brush with Artist Acrylic Air Brush Paints.  The assembled panel was protected with multiple coats of a Clear Gloss Acrylic.

The Frame is 1/3/4” wide Poplar rails finished with Black Lacquer.

Made this as a Christmas Gift for my, soon-to-be ,Grand-Daughter-in-law, who, besides being the mother of my Great-Grand-son, is a Bee Keeper.

 

Comments and critiques always welcome.

[Joe W.]

Nice!
Steve Good has a similar pattern I cut a couple years ago.
 

[wombatie]

Fabulous.  Love the bee.

Marg

[Uhanalainen]

Nice paint up! The bee looks phenomenal  

[FrankEV]

9 hours ago, Joe W. said:

Nice!
Steve Good has a similar pattern I cut a couple years ago.
 

Now that you mentioned it, I do have his pattern in my files with a title "Honeybee" so it did not register in my scan of my files when I looked for "Bee". 

When I was looking throug the Website that had all kinds of'"Bee" things I found a couple of images I liked and decided, for the small price, to buy a few.  This one sort of jumped out at me because of the rather overly exagerated Bee image.  Other than the bridges I had to add between the Honeycomb sections, I also liked the simplicity of the Honeycomb image.  I immediately could invision how it would be colored.

[barb.j.enders]

Nice work Frank!

[edward]

Great job, I will be cutting a similar one on Steves site for an order.

[rjweb]

Looks good Frank, RJ

[daveww1]

awesome job

[MarieC]

Wow, I love the eyes on your bee!  really nice work as always!

[Ron Johnson]

Beautiful work Frank. 

[rdatelle]

That bee looks real. Nice job.