Many Many Layers

Who likes big clocks? I mean a really big clock. Who likes old big clocks? Yea, me, too so I decided since I haven't found a big old clock I could afford that I would just transform the big clock I have.

I gathered my paints that I had on hand and then even bought a new color while I was buying paint for one of the guest rooms. Yes, I painted an armoire on Thursday, this clock on Friday and a guest room on Saturday. If you follow me on instagram (and you know you should) then you would have seen these things that I was working on. 

This is what the clock looked like. I bought it at Pier One last November. It's been hanging here in the dining room and Mr. Savvy has not ever noticed it until he saw me working on it and asked where it came from. I told him it's been here since before Thanksgiving. Silly unobservant man.

This paint job consist of many layers of paint doing one layer at a time and then I painted the numbers black and then I toned them down with more paint and used my fingers to wipe some of it back off. There was also oil mixed with dark wax used and then some more dark wax added.

I took the hands off since it wasn't working anyway and most old clocks have lost their hands.

I really didn't intend for it to turn out this color, but I kind of like the fact that it looks like copper that has aged to that green patina over time and the numbers look a bit like zinc.

I seriously started painting this and could not stop. I just kept standing back and looking at it and then would do some more to it. Oh, and yes, I painted it while it hung on the wall.

This took some time, but sure saved me a lot of money by making a new clock look old.

So if you can't find an authentic old item you are wanting maybe you can make a new piece look like the real thing.