Just to show that I haven't completely forgotten about my promise to finish this before some Christmas or other, here is evidence that I actually do work on this piece once in a while. Here is the border SLOWLY getting done. I realized as I worked on this that I had to leave spaces for where the screws would attach to the wooden frame. BUT since I didn't know which screws to use, I didn't know what size space to leave so I was leaving huge spaces but didn't have the pieces for them... the whole thing was quickly dissolving into a mass of doubts and speculations. So I decided to get to work on the frame and then I could just get the damn black glass border done in a night or two.
Here is the black frame. This is just shy of being 4' by 4' (remember the broken corner business of over a year ago--still angry about that). Once I get enough layers of black paint on and it is COMPLETLY DRY (unfortunately I have a history of being a bit slip shod about these sorts of things--hanging pictures on walls before the paint is completely dry, that sort of thing) I will attach the frame to the plexiglass backing.
And here is one of the little holes I have drilled into the plexiglass so I can attach it to the wooden frame. I also have a dozen or so bits of wood that I am going to artfully scatter about within the frame to support the weight of the plexiglass and glass while I work until it is grouted. THEN I will finish the glass border and begin filling in the middle. Making the frame is tedious business and the black paint is really slow to dry (of course it has been raining every day for weeks, that might have something to do with it). But the end seems to actually be in sight...
Here is the black frame. This is just shy of being 4' by 4' (remember the broken corner business of over a year ago--still angry about that). Once I get enough layers of black paint on and it is COMPLETLY DRY (unfortunately I have a history of being a bit slip shod about these sorts of things--hanging pictures on walls before the paint is completely dry, that sort of thing) I will attach the frame to the plexiglass backing.
And here is one of the little holes I have drilled into the plexiglass so I can attach it to the wooden frame. I also have a dozen or so bits of wood that I am going to artfully scatter about within the frame to support the weight of the plexiglass and glass while I work until it is grouted. THEN I will finish the glass border and begin filling in the middle. Making the frame is tedious business and the black paint is really slow to dry (of course it has been raining every day for weeks, that might have something to do with it). But the end seems to actually be in sight...
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