Carrying on from the earlier stages, In the photo above the middle section has been painted.
In the next stage, show above, the frames paint has been distressed with fine sand paper and abrasive pads. Then a grey colourwash was applied all over.
Next some wax is put all over, and the frames were then left over night. Seen in the photo above.
The last work on these frames was to do a little more distressing on the inner mouldings using wire wool, and then to polish all over. I really like this finish, you get lots of subtle colour variations coming through the different layers, which hint at the work and time involved to get the paint effect.
