Today we made a lot of progress. We started out by making the finishing touches in our outlines and our designs. We wanted to make the bench to have more "proctor" things incorporated in it so we decided to draw a hornet on one side and a tree on the other. I drew the tree and Mack drew the hornet. After this we decided our outlines and designs are good so we started painting the big capital letters that spell out "Kindness Bench" in different colors. It started to really look like the bench we were imagining! We're going to continue to paint it tomorrow and add on as we go!
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!
Can't wait to see the finished product!!
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