Zanny Rants » free stuff http://www.zannyrants.com Opinions, Thoughts and Commentary of a Baby Boomer Artist Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:54:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 What a Find! http://www.zannyrants.com/2009/05/26/what-a-find/ http://www.zannyrants.com/2009/05/26/what-a-find/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 16:55:39 +0000 zanny http://www.zannyrants.com/?p=174 Last week I was out marketing my notecards and did ok. Sold 4 each of 27 different designs to one shop and 6 each of 6 designs to another shop. On my way home, I passed the local hazardous waste drop-off place. It’s where you can take things like unused paint and other chemicals for proper disposal, AND you can get totally free paint in these huge 5 gallon buckets. Of course you can’t “order” a specific color, but still, the entire inside of my home was painted with this free paint. Even though I don’t need any five gallon buckets of paint, I decided to zip in and see what was available, one of those spur of the moment decisions.

WELL……..you’ll never guess what I found! 60 jars of ArtDeco paint of all varieties. For an artist, this was like finding diamonds in the coal heap. I’d never heard of this paint before, so when I got home I looked them up online. OMG! This is wonderful stuff, and had I purchased it thru the online store, most of it was $9.99 a jar. Let’s see……$600 worth of paint for FREE! How blessed am I?

I spent the entire week-end playing with this new paint, and posted below are just a few of the creations I came up with. The one is an Altoids box that was sitting on my desk. Hey, recycling is good!  The other, the one with the dark green leaf (made using a stencil) is painted on a 5 x 7 canvas board. Have no clue what I’ll do with all these new pieces of art now, but geesh, what a fun way to spend a long week-end.

Creations using ArtDeco Paint

Creations using ArtDeco Paint

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