Once upon a time I bought a tent (by mistake - I know - who'd have thought) on ebay. And because it was cheap and old and tatty and canvas, I decided to try painting it, as a test. It turned out brilliantly
(read all about that here) and so I was keen to try it again with a better tent. I sold my lovely painted Barry and decided to paint up Wilfred, while leaving the new 'Lord Lichfield' bare. (Lords like that sort of thing I think)
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| Lord Lichfield |
I allowed DD to choose the theme this time. And she chose Japan. It's not perfect, but we are not artists! We opted for a panorama of snow capped mountains, a cherry blossom tree and a pagoda. A general consensus decided we needed some swallows too.
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| Some Rushes at the foot of the North Mountain |
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| The Cherry Tree |
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| DD painting the pagoda |
We painted everything free hand, no stencils. And we used fabric paints from
YellowMoon and some
Fabsil to double check it would stay waterproof (this worked brilliantly last time.
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| Pagoda |
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| The swallows |
The tent had it's first post-painting outing at the Curious Arts Festival, where it withstood a small shower with ease, and this weekend will be coming to Camp Bestival with us. I also bought some Japanese themed bunting...
Do say 'Hi' if you spot us at the tent!
