Making of V-Flats for my studio

Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog. If this is a first time for you, you can check out some of the old post to see, what I've been up to lately.
And if you have seen my other posts, you know, that I've decided to go back to the basics and just

start doing fine art portraits for people, so I can share my gift with others. My whole family helped as they could ;-)

I got really inspired, when I was listening to the videos that Sue Bryces has on her website www.suebryceeducation.com
By the way, best decision in my life to invest in my education and learn new things. I believe, that you cannot be old enough to learn something new and I love educating myself about something, that I'm so passionate about. How to capture the beauty within everyone. I love to connect with people and mirror and capture their story, that shows in their eyes.

It wasn't all that easy, to create the V-Flats, that I would hope for. To be truthful, I almost felt like giving up at some point, because the black color was just pealing and would peal, even if I scratched it just by accident little tiny bit.
I started with the white. It was pretty easy, but I realized early enough, that I cannot do it in our apartment and I have to take it outside. I had to redo one whole board, because instead of painting on the unpainted side, I painted the black on the white painted side already.. Long story short. It took me two trips to Lowe's, because I just had to return the black paint, that wouldn't stop pealing. I bought another black paint, this time, it was the Charcoal black paint, that should be ok.

I also had to tape them together - the boards, that I bought at Lowe's are this: Lowes Insulation Board
So the total cost of the used material was about $90. And my hard labor. It wasn't easy to do it with Eli, but I did it and felt so accomplished and really proud of myself.

I have been using the V-Flats since I've made them several times and I love it. I hope, you'll have fun watching the Timelaps videos that I've captured about me doing the work. I hope, that they will last some time and I won't have to make new ones for some time though.

Have a wonderful day and stay tuned for the next post.

Warmly,

Barbora