Splat!

As I said in my previous post most of the furniture I'll be painting comes with a design brief. This next piece came with a very specific one. I was given this table (the two holes are filled with glass panels) and told it was to be black with the two glass panels painted in a Jackson Pollock 'splatter' style.

After I sanded it down I put two coats of primer on it.

After giving the table 2 1/2 coats of black paint I got to work on the glass panels. I decided to paint the panels grey to give the illusion that they were made of stone. I then used black, white and bright blue to create the splatter design. It was my first time doing something like this and it was immensely fun to do! It seems to me that the more mess I make doing something the more fun it is and I made a lot of mess doing this! (You should see the kitchen after I've baked something!)

Seriously - paint everywhere!

This is how it turned out! I really like this table. The feel of it has completely changed from its original design and now it's modern, fun and ready for a new lifestyle.

This piece was painted with the following Farrow and Ball colours:
Pitch Black/Purbeck Stone/St Giles Stone