Making our Photo-Frame - 3D Woodwork Workshop Day 5/6

In this workshop i got to make the photo frame that i designed in the second 3D workshop. I chose to make my design that was based on my favorite book, The Fault in our Stars. I started this by painting a frame that i had already made in a pale blue colour. While i was waiting for that to dry, i decided to cut out the shapes that i were going to stick onto my frame out of thin MDF. I chose MDF as it is light so it wouldn't snap from the weight since some of the pieces went off the frame itself. These shapes were a roller coaster, two champagne glasses, an infinity symbol and a speech-bubble. I then sanded these shapes so that they were smooth and didn't look as if i rushed it, i then began to paint these shapes the colours that i coloured them in on my initial design. Once id done this, i sandpapered parts of my frame down so that the wood colour came through the blue so it looked 'distressed' so that there wasn't too much blue on my frame. After if done this i painted my quotes straight onto the wood using a tiny brush, making sure they were as neat as i could make them. Once everything was dry, i began to stick my objects down onto my frame using pva glue, pressing down onto them until they were dry so they wouldn't move or come off.

My finished frame.

In this workshop, i came across a few problems, one of these were that while i was sticking the shapes onto my frame, one of them snapped, i sorted this by sanding the shape down so that it looked like just one champagne glass, and painted the other one so it didn't look so odd. Another problem i came across was that i thought that it looked as if there were too many quotes on my frame and it took away all the attention than what the picture would be in the middle. I overcame this by painting over one of the quotes, and painting two little people where it were, who are the main characters of the book, so it didn't take away all the attention. Overall i really enjoyed this workshop as i enjoy making this to have a outcome that's not just 2D, and i liked learning how to make an object without taking all the attention away  from the main, center object.