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Direct Application of Color Mixing 2025-07-26
I made a wood (cherry) brush stand, and matching desktop palette. I used the 3 primaries, mixed for green (blue plus yellow) and orange (red plus yellow). Direct color mixing means to mix the colors on the palette and paint the result right (directly) on the substrate. Indirect would be putting down a glaze of…
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20240122 Need Narrow Board Suggestions – Comment Below
About two months ago a neighbor (we will call him Daniel), who dabbled with woodworking, moved out. Within a week a package arrived on his porch. I felt it an easy target for theft so I brought it to my garage. It was from Barrington Hardwoods LLC. That got me excited! I attempted to contact…
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20200503 Easy Frame – No Power Tools
First published on my Green Sheaves website 2020-05-03 (during my COVID “furlough”) In 2016, while convalescing from a broken wrist and foot, both on the right side (I am right handed), I was rolling through a hobby store (on a knee scooter) and spotted what I learned were “stretcher bars”. They are used in canvas…