Maple leaf earring studs

[neferene1]

These are ironic to me. These are maple leaves made from maple plywood. Lol

[evansd2]

Huh, your color work is interesting.

Is that simply painted a solid color, and the smoke does the shading, or did you handpaint it all?

[bansai8creations]

I wanted to compliment you on the paint job & using the black card–the shading and details with the veins is fabulous–I almost expect them to start curling up! But @evansd2 comment made me pause and think this is even more brilliant if you took advantage of what’s often a problem into helping you get the great coloring! (Also appreciate the irony, too!).

[neferene1]

I let the smoke do the shading. It usually works against me, but not in this instance.

[neferene1]

Thanks so much. Yes let the smoke do the work when you want an aged effect.

[evansd2]

That turned out really nicely. Many times smoke shading doesn’t work nearly so well.

[davidgal2]

The colors look great. Nice idea.

[MakerMatthew]

Very nice!

[neferene1]

Thanks!

[neferene1]

So nice of you to say. Thank you.

[ptodd]

Beautiful!

[neferene1]

thanks so much!!