Well... back in January he brought me the incredible wooden creation. The workmanship is incredible. The slate however....was clean. The wooden "box" was sanded perfectly smooth and clean of any finish or stain. It was ready for whatever I wanted to embellish it with.
I had many ideas....but finally I decided to go back to my first idea with some added elements. Here I want to share with you the progress i have made so far in decorating my very own box created by X.
The box is in the shape of a diamond. Inside is a locked compartment and cryptex. Figure out the hidden message of the cryptex to gain access to the locked compartment and the stamp.
My first step was the layout of the most important part of my design.
I drew on my trees with a soft pencil and then used these awesome art pens I had bought for my son to outline the trees.
At this point I was bombarded with ideas. I couldn't do them all so I had to make decisions.
One decision I made was to not paint everything like I had originally planned. Now I wanted to do the art work but I want to leave the wood grain and then later do some staining.
So then I added some more drawn elements inside and out and began using some color. Those of you into history may recognize some images or significance of some symbols.
I will be staining the wood so I realized that colors will get muted down, darkened and even possibly lost when I do the staining. If I get close to the look I want... I will be thrilled.
This thing has been totally fun so far!
Now to add my last drawn element and to stain the wood.
