Paint Party!

 Its a paint party  and I'm painting everything in sight, so I had to join in. I have a few projects that I want to share. The  first things are these mirrors, I have had them for a looong time. I'm tired of gold although I hear its making a comeback. I painted these mirrors silver. Here's where we started.

 I painted the first mirror in liquid silver leaf, but I thought it looked like bright chrome so I added a wash of black paint...umm no, now it just looked dirty, so finally I put a mercury  glaze  over it and that toned it down and softened it up. I can live with it now. Here's the after:

I painted the second mirror in sterling silver by Folk Art paints. Its a softer silver but it took a jillion coats, I also glazed it in mercury. Here's the after:

Next up was a shelf that  that I  bought  years ago and since I'm in redo mode I decided to try a gesso wash. Rosemary at Villabarnes gave a great tutorial on her blog and I was intrigued by it. I thought  these pieces would be perfect  for it. I have two of these. I haven't decided how to use them yet but here's how they turned out:

Before

After

 I love the finish on these. It has the look of plaster which is great for the style of the piece. Its a soft chalk like finish. I'm  addicted to it now and want to try it  on every thing. I decided to try it on a picture frame. This time I sanded and waxed the gesso and also applied a little black glaze to age it a bit. I did another picture like this  earlier but I painted it. I looked all over for the second picture.and couldn't understand why it wasn't in the closet, well long story short...I found it about a week ago when I went shopping in my shed.

This is the before

This is after the gesso wash , waxed and glazed.

The images are from  the The graphics fairy.  Here are my two gesso washed pieces together.

  Finally  I have these suitcases that look vintage but they're  not. My husband bought them for me at Sams Club years ago. he knows I like vintage  suitcases and had a couple so he thought I would like these. He was right, I do. Wasn't that sweet of him, and he wasn't even trying to get out of the dog  house LOL. Here's what they looked like before:

Here is the after:

I did an imperfect paint job on these so they would look like they've been around a while. I let the brown show through in spots. I painted them in Talc by MS paints.  Four projects down a skillion more to go, but I'm making progress.

I cant wait to visit all of you and see what you've been up to. I'm joining the Paint Blog Party at  Debbie Doos Blogging and Blabbing

                                  
And  Between Naps On The Porch for Met. Monday and Mod Vintage Life for Mod Mix Monday and Funky Junk Interiors  for SNS and  Chocolate Drool And Kisses for The Creative Bloggers Party and Hop
and  It's So Very Cheri for the Party and Hop and Kreative Korner for Tea Time Thursday.