Wood/ Marble Imitation Course prt 2 (2013 and up)

Ever since my last post about my course about Wood/ Marble imitation I've made some more examples.
Please note that the actual colors look better than how they do on picture.

Next on my list is gilding with gold leaves and to bronze a small statue.
At the moment I'm almost finished with "Fountain" Mahogany.

Walnut Stretched (2013)

4 Windowed panel with Walnut Root wood (2013)

Walnut Root wood (2013)

Italian Walnut (2013)

Mahogany (2013)

Mahogany Flower Right Curved (2014)

Mahogany Flower S Curved (2014)

Chalkboard "Warm-up 4 Hoop" (2014)

This year the bi-annual "Samenloop voor Hoop" ("Walk of Hope")  is being held in my town.
My father organised a team of relay walkers. With that team we also have a market stand. My dad wants to sell warm drinks. That is how he came up with the "Warm-up 4 Hoop" team name (it's half Dutch).

I wanted to help out a bit, so I made a chalkboard for him to put the drinks on and the prices.

Finished chalkboard

It's a board of MDF with a pre-made pine frame, some clay, paint and a chalkboard sticker.

My father came up with the cup as a team logo, which I turned into a 3D model made out of clay.

3D logo

3D logo with the bottom text.
"Samenloop voor Hoop"

 The frame I coated with a brown primer. I added a thin layer of white paint to give it an older antique look. I also sanded the edges of the cup and plate a bit for that same reason.

The letters are done by hand. I used white paint and added some shadow lines with a darker gray tone.

Jigsaw Puzzle Plant Pot (2014)

Next to the garbage bin flower pots I also made a pot from a jigsaw puzzle.

I bought a puzzle mat to roll up your unfinished puzzle and with it was a free (but not a very pretty) jigsaw puzzle (1000 pieces). I decided to make something out of it and that became a flower pot.

I started with a circle of cardboard, to serve as a flat base. On that I put a plastic pot to use as a guidance to build around.
With some wood glue I glued every piece into place. Some pieces were trimmed to get 1 straight edge.

Side view of the finished pot, without color.

Top view of the finished pot, without color.

 Every 5 layers or so I would stop and put something heavy (a book) on it so it would flatten the surface and pressing the glue together.

Because I noticed the pile of pieces was running down very fast I decided to gain some extra height by glueing some of them vertically.

When all was done I spray painted the pot in a silver color.

Finished pot; side view

Finished pot; top view

The orange plastic pot isn't so nice, I'll change it with a black one.

Inside there is a small plastic container to prevent leaking when watering the plant.

Note: This was a very good puzzle for this type of project. Because all pieces had 2 holes and 2 pins aligned to each other. So no irregularities like 4 holes or  2 pins at associated edges.