Anyways, the vine is made from 3/8" steel and is about 24" long. The leaves are 16G and everything else is 14G. I used Vista green patina, hammered black and red, and satin pink for the flowers.
I've always had an issue with the "how-do-I-assemble-a-multi-color-piece-without-having-to-mask-out-for-painting" problem...
What I did was paint everything separately, then used rare earth magnets to hold everything together! I've been using this solution for some of the last couple multi-color pieces I've done and it seems to be working well. You have to shake it pretty hard for the parts to come off. I figure if we get that strong of an earthquake here in Wisconsin.... we got bigger problems than that....
Also, to get the white to show through on the ladybugs, I used white tag board, double sided taped to the back. You'd never know it was tag board.
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