Barbara Pagani's Tresor Cache 101

Unfortunately I forgot to take a before picture but trust me it wasn't pretty. This cedar chest had been sitting in my neighbours garage for maybe 20 years or more. The back side and the inside were in mint condition but the top and the sides the veneer was peeling off. After several attempts at removing the veneer with a scraper and then an old iron, I gave up and sanded the edges of the last little bit that would not come off. I painted the first coat of red chalk paint and it soaked too much so I added a touch of water and this helped to spread it out. I gave the top 2 coats and then using acrylic paints, I painted with the stencil that I had made with Terraskin. I will let this dry and then add some gold edging on the words and seal with clear wax and then buff with some darker wax to give some of the edges a worn look.

I purchased this product a while ago to do some stencils and when I got it home I found some cool tutorials on you tube and played around with inks on it with my brayer. I loved the way the inks spread around on this terraskin. The results were pretty cool and I played around with it for a couple of hours and got completely lost in it. I didn't want to use this one as a stencil because I thought I could do something with the piece I had worked on but I just never got around to doing anything. So while on vacation/spring cleaning the cottage I slipped some of this terraskin in with my art supplies and used a new sheet to make a stencil of a tree. This terraskin is beautiful to cut and it was like butter. This is the very first time that I didn't worry about being to aggressive with my edge cutting. The product is very durable. Here are 2 different examples of different paintings. This is the piece of Terraskin that I played around with an up close section of it where I...