Each semester at Southcoast begins with a brief design project. I just realized that I never showed the completion of the fall semester's project so I will do that now.
As you may remember we began last semester building seating around the studio's outdoor fire put. However, the first hint of progress was quickly quenched by mother nature when a tree fell on the post we had just set in the ground. About a month and half later building resumed.
When finished the bench featured both firewood storage below on the right side and a built in smores storage unit on the left side. Flowers were also put into the planters.
This semester the project was building benches to go around the studio's big table we use for potlucks. The theme of this project was "quick and dirty".
We made 8 of the benches, so mass production was key to this design. Jig's we're made and the lumber was prepared in an assembly line style of production.
The only materials used we're 2x4 and 2x6 dimensional lumber joined with pegs. Each piece was fed through a planar to turn the once splintery framing studs into a grade A furniture making material. Note the color of the legs. I have always been morally opposed to painting wood because it covers up the beautiful grain, but during this project I learned a new technique called "white washing". This allows the wood grain to show through the white paint. Tom Sawyer did this to paint his fence because it made a bucket of paint stretch farther. To prepare a white wash dilute a water based paint with water (I used a ratio of about 1/3 paint - 2/3 water). It will be runny so to get even coats we hung the legs on a laundry line so they could be painted all at once.
Also, among other things, this week included my first trip to the roller derby.
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