The Red Bed
At long last "The Red Bed" is finished!
Someone gave the old metal bed frame to me several years ago and I contemplated numerous uses for it. Then the idea came to paint the frame red and place a "bed" in the middle of the woods! Why? Why not?
The mattress bedcover is made of used corrugated tin roofing, purchased for $1.00 per sheet at Allan Crouse's famous scrap yard on Osborne Road. The color scheme is triadic (white is not a color) and the overall Dadaist-like design was inspired by a Jean Arp painting shown by Joe Bunting on his facebook Wall. Allan Joyce masterfully mixed the green paint to the correct color at Farmer's Hardware. Matisse could not have done a better job!
Now, I'm not a big fan of bending sheet metal because, as I learned from working one summer in a millwright shop during my college days, it will cut you in a heartbeat. But I did manage to get it coarsely bent with only a single bloodletting.
"The Red Bed" currently sits at the edge of the woods below the deck, but, over time, will likely ramble about the woods to other unexpected locations.
Someone gave the old metal bed frame to me several years ago and I contemplated numerous uses for it. Then the idea came to paint the frame red and place a "bed" in the middle of the woods! Why? Why not?
The mattress bedcover is made of used corrugated tin roofing, purchased for $1.00 per sheet at Allan Crouse's famous scrap yard on Osborne Road. The color scheme is triadic (white is not a color) and the overall Dadaist-like design was inspired by a Jean Arp painting shown by Joe Bunting on his facebook Wall. Allan Joyce masterfully mixed the green paint to the correct color at Farmer's Hardware. Matisse could not have done a better job!
Now, I'm not a big fan of bending sheet metal because, as I learned from working one summer in a millwright shop during my college days, it will cut you in a heartbeat. But I did manage to get it coarsely bent with only a single bloodletting.
"The Red Bed" currently sits at the edge of the woods below the deck, but, over time, will likely ramble about the woods to other unexpected locations.
I would have made it a flower bed!!
ReplyDeleteThat was one consideration for it. I have another frame ...
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