Garden time

[holmqer]

It's almost gardening time so made some garden theme things.

Pierced and airbrushed floral pattern bowl with matching airbrushed gardening dibble. Bowl is turned from sycamore and dibble is turned from maple. Bowl is around 9" (23 cm) across. Dibble has marks every inch (25mm) to aid in planting bulbs. Bowl is finished with polyurethane, the dibble is finished with PolyWhey, a whey protein based finish made from byproducts of cheese making.

 

[pensbydesign]

nice work like the colors would hate to stick in the ground a make it dirty

 

[tommyd]

Looking good!!!!! what kind of paint are you using in the airbrush?

 

[bitshird]

Eric that is a pretty bowl and I haven't seen any one else turn a dibble before, I have to make sure my wife doesn't see this or it's going to become a honey do thing, great idea though, looks a lot better than my stick with marks every 1/2 inch.

 

[Drstrangefart]

Very smooth!

 

[gvanweerd]

Very nice! I like the bowl. I like the dibble. Heck i like them both!

 

[nava1uni]

Both pieces are very nice. The bowl is beautiful.

 

[holmqer]

Thanks, the latest club challange was to make a garden dibble so I decided to go for a double header and make a second turning with a matching theme.

Tom, the coloring was done two ways. On the bowl, the flower petals were initially sprayed with Transtint (r) Purple to soak into the grain, then gone over with Golden transparent airbrush colors (wash coat, the shadow lines and the red edges). The same process was used for the flower petals on the dibble. All the other colors except for the green leaves are also Golden (r) transparent airbrush colors. The green is Grex Private Stock (tm) Transparent Rainforest Green. I don't really like the Golden transparent green (like most Phthalo greens it has too much blue in it for my taste). The rainbow on the shaft of the dibble was made by mostly by blending primary colors (Red, Yellow and Blue), but I did just use purple for the tip rather than try to blend that small spot.