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Painted a few clipboards this weekend. It was good to have a few hours to paint these. My daughter is a principal and holding a retreat next week and I painted these for her for door prizes for her teachers. First one is a painting of a rooster that I took of my son's mean rooste. It was so pretty, but mean. Enjoy.
P.S. I can't get my atvar to change size or delete. Sorry it is so big.
DJ

My orginial design, painted from a photo.

Another of my orginial designs. Can you tell I like to paint butterflies?

A Shirley Koenig design painted in acrylics.

A bluejay on a fall sunflower, A Shirley Koenig design. Love this one too. Thanks for looking.
DJ

Kraftylady,

I always enjoy your clipboards and am thinking about painting some that I have in my stash. How do you finish yours? Do you use a spray or brush-on finish and do you remove the hardware before painting? I prefer removing any hardware before painting an item but looking at the clip boards I have I think removing the hardware would be an impossible task.
Thanks for your input.

frannie

I love all of your clipboards, they are beautiful! The butterfly one that you use as your atavar is my favorite, then the rooster.

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Frannie,
I do not remove the hardware I just paint around it. Also I use a Satin Varnish from DecoArt to seal my designs. I was thinking today that maybe I should have painted the backs instead of the fronts so when someone is using them you still could see the painting. Just a thought.
DJ

I especially like the bluejay! But they are all beautiful. You have a point there about painting on the backs for future projects.

Thanks KraftyLady.

I usually use and prefer Satin finishes and for something like a clipboard a brush-on varnish would probably be more durable.
I have seen them where both the back and front were painted. I work at Wild Birds Unlimited and I've been wanting to paint myself one with a bird on the back (so it's seen, like you mentioned) then maybe paint a matching border on the front. I think I'll start looking through some things and see what I come up with. Thanks for your reply.

Beautiful

These are just beautiful. You are a wonderful painter, thanks for sharing them.

Linda

I love your clipboards, I have done a couple of them - I will try to post a picture soon of my last one, it's my favorite so far.

I agree with the others that these clip boards are striking. I like the idea!
Kathleen

Rainee,
I love your idea of putting on a boarder on the front side. Check out Shirley Koenig's books there are wonderful. She paints lots of nature.
DJ