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Chair of Hope 2012

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Yay! I painted something! and updated my blog!

This is the Chair of Hope for 2012.

My workplace participated last year and produced a chair among 6 or so people done to the theme of “Anchorman”. Last year was movies. The chair was pretty good, had some decent construction elements and came together after a few weeks of working on it here and there on weekends. I made red velvet curtains for it.

This year was “Famous works of art”. Not many people at work seemed interested in painting a chair this year, and I nearly blew it off myself. I changed my mind when, after a month of procrastinating and guessing it had been picked already, I emailed the organizer and asked if ‘Starry Night” had been taken. It had not, and he was enthusiastic about me picking it. As yet, no one else was interested in participating, and I was actually kind of excited about doing it myself and not having to split creative differences, especially over an art piece project. My husband had a couple of really good ideas, and drilled the hole in the seat of the chair for me, then cut out the star shape with a jigsaw. He also pretty much did all the wiring for the chair too.

I painted the chair with metallic blue spray paint for a base, then covered some parts with heavy art paper that would still work like a paper lantern. I cut up a printed poster of Starry Night and glued pieces of it to the chair, backing some of them with more art paper. On top of that, there are assorted glow-in-the-dark stars pasted onto various surfaces. In addition, I painted the underside of the seat to look like a swirling galaxy. The organizer mentioned the chairs would be displayed on tables before auction, so I didn’t want to let a surface go to waste. I mixed and poured resin into the star shape in the center of the seat, which took about 3 days to fully cure. The lightbulb mounted under the seat was a high-efficiency low-watt bulb to keep from setting anything on fire. Also mounted under the chair is a light switch with a 3 ft cord.

James Hunt, the organizer, was very happy with my chair and said it looked amazing I hope it does well at auction.

The chairs – about 40 in total from various places locally – will be auctioned off at Vandora Springs Elementary school in Garner, NC, on April 19th. I can’t go, but I hope they send someone from work to record it. The money raised at auction goes to The American Cancer Society and to Garner’s Relay for Life. We spent about $35 out of pocket, not counting the full amount for the bucket of resin. I’m really really pleased with my adventures in paint, and want to paint more now
Image size
1280x960px 803.26 KB
Make
SONY
Model
CYBERSHOT
Shutter Speed
10/500 second
Aperture
F/2.1
Focal Length
9 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
Apr 12, 2012, 2:43:01 PM
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