I got a chuckle out of the e-mail and photos that my dear friend Bernice Dupre sent to me. She had started painting one of my suitcase designs when she noticed a BIG boo boo… (As you will see in the photos below, she accidently transferred the design upside down on the surface and had started painting her project. She painted over what she had base painted with Black and re applied the line drawing and started over. You couldn’t tell from the end results that there were any problems… Her finished project came out beautiful!
Moral of story…. Just about anything is fixable on your painting projects. So many get fustrated because they think they have ruined their project when they have made a mistake….but mistakes can almost always be fixed!!
PAINTER’S BLOG CANDY… Leave a post about how you have corrected a painting mistake! I will draw a name on Monday, November 16th. The winner will receive (1) free pattern packet of their choice from my web-site.
November 12th, 2009 - 8:50 pm
wow… this is beautiful! as the saying goes “to err is human”
and thank goodness!
(from your italian fan
November 13th, 2009 - 4:58 am
wow what stunning work. I have covered over a painting mistake by turning it inot a collage and layering a collage image over the top. please enter me with a chance to win. ty
artbyjan@googlemail.com
http://www.tarotwisdom.etsy.com
November 13th, 2009 - 6:57 am
Last week I painted a 4 feet long x 1 foot wide sign for a customer. It was time to varnish so I grab what I thought was my can of clear varnish and start spraying the sign. To my horror I had grabbed a can of grey spray paint. I did manage to fix it by painting over the grey then I stained it and I grabbed the correct can of clear to varnish it. Pictures are posted on my blog under “My Big OOPS!!! make sure to read labels”.
Marie from Canada
P.S. Bernice did a great job on the suitcase
November 13th, 2009 - 11:27 am
I was painting a snowman on a shirt when i dropped my brush and left paint spots in several places. Rather than trying to clean them all up i grabbed a snowflake stencil and added snowflakes over the sport.
November 13th, 2009 - 11:28 am
I’m not so talented. When I make a painting oops, I usually have to start over! I love your artwork! So cute!
November 13th, 2009 - 11:30 am
It looks great. I have put the pattern on upside down too, but usually catch it before I start to paint. My painting teacher says anything can be fixed!
November 13th, 2009 - 11:30 am
Thanks
November 13th, 2009 - 12:52 pm
Bernice great job!!! congratulations
as beginer I make some mistakes all I do is reapply the base color, let it dry sand lightly and start over again. My biggest problem is the floating so for that reason I always have clean water because most of the time I have to wipe it off.
hugs
steph
November 13th, 2009 - 4:11 pm
I painted the sled from the Warm n Wooly book. I had finished all the painting and had glued all the pieces together when I realized I had glued the top of the sled on upside down. The glue was pretty much set. We were able to salvage the project and get it glued the right way. The recipient of the sled has never known what I did.
November 13th, 2009 - 4:46 pm
Because I have had no formal training in the art of painting, I am self taught by trial and error. I have tried may ways to remove mistakes and the best I have found so far is just a damp q-tip. I keep a small plastic bowl of q-tips on my desk at all times within easy reach . When I make a mistake, I simply dip the q-tip in clean water, dab on a towel and rub away the mistake. I works most times.
November 13th, 2009 - 11:28 pm
Oh poor Bernie! I really know how that hurts as I’ve done many Big Boo Boo’s during my time as a painter! I think the one that sticks out the most was the day I finally finished a project that I had been laboring over and had it just to my liking. Well—— I reached on my shelf for my can of Matte spray and not looking at the can sprayed my finished project! Well——it wasn’t Matte spray and it wasn’t even Gloss——it was white enamel spray paint! How did I fix it you ask—-I threw the can out in the yard as far as I could throw it. The project went up into my paint and as a matter of fact it’s still up there! Then I went into the house and got a big piece of chocolate cake! Yes Renee’ everything can almost be fixed with chocolate!!!!
The suitcase looks perfect and what a story it has to travel along with it on it’s journeys!
November 14th, 2009 - 2:33 pm
My family and friends think it’s rather gross but I often use my saliva on a painting cloth to wipe up small boo-boos. Hey, it’s an all natural alternative
November 14th, 2009 - 5:47 pm
As a beginner and self taught painter I have made many mistakes. Luckily no one ever knows how many layers of paint are really on the finished piece. My first Renee Mullins project was the tiny red “Winter Home Tree Ornament” in the “Santa and Company” book. I was determined to get the round holes and shading right. It took 4 coats of paint for that one simple project-but I got it done and it looks great. Remember…it’s ONLY paint.
November 15th, 2009 - 6:43 pm
Wow, what a great job!! Your mistake was covered VERY well!!! The mistakes I have made were covered up by sanding the wood piece to get the paint off and then re-painting starting again with the base color.
November 15th, 2009 - 6:44 pm
I like that idea if it works!! I will try it sometime and let you know if it works for me.
November 17th, 2009 - 7:08 pm
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