After a week of complications, I was in the mood to do something simple, creative,

and fun today…so I dropped into our local thrift store, settled on a

nice 18th century style figurine for $20…

Click to enlarge if you want to study the subtle (?!) nuances of color…

I sanded this little beauty down just a bit, roughing her up with

sandpaper to slightly de-gloss her and make it easier for the paint

to grab, and happily dragged out my hoard of gray paint…

This was my inspiration…Kathy Dalwood’s lovely cast concrete figurines…

the cement updating their 18th century charms…

…more Kathy Dalwood here in my post “Pretty Gray things”…

I used C2’s Stomp paint (flat finish) to completely cover.  Then adding a light gray beside

Stomp on a plastic tray,  mixed the lighter gray in a bit to highlight and add that “bloom”

you get on weathered metal… being somewhat careless in the application…

The decorative swag is a piece of bronze furniture ormolu I painted

earlier …awaiting another project …

Pensive in the setting afternoon sun…

next to a weathered small zinc pot, crystal dropped shelf…

Wisteria zinc tones updated trumeau…

And zinc rooftop finials…

You could say I have a thing for gray…

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