Today we got a lot accomplished. In order to start painting the bench we had to plan everything out; the design, colors, writing, etc. We have to use acrylic paint on the bench because of the specific type of wood. We started by planning out the quotes and sayings we want and where we want them to go. Then we started planning the rest of the bench. We came up with the words we want to put to cover the bench, neatly, and the designs. We messed up a lot which was good because it led us to new ideas on how we want the outcome of the bench to look. Every, we got a lot done and we are continuing to plan out what we do so we can hit the 50 hour mark.
On Wednesday we started our leg design. We had to first clean off the bench and wipe it down with water and paper towels to make sure there wasn't anything like dust or pencil shavings that the paint could dry over. When we finished this we put a trash bag over the parts of the bench that we didn't want to get paint over and then started our design. We're not giving anything away so a little hint is that it is super messy. Our design took a long time to finish, but it was really fun. After we finished we went over the entire bench in like a 5th coat of white. We painted white in between letters, pictures, words, etc. It took a very long time to make sure we didn't get any white paint over anything we had already painted. We had to let the paint dry so we stopped there and are going to finish the other coat on Thursday, and then the bench will finally be done!
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