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Painted the seed library box and half painted the 'Roots and Shoots' shop frontage today, and I'm not very satisfied with either of them. Painting something shaped, where the wood grain texture is uneven and the paint coverage is also uneven, is a lot harder than doing the smooth plastic bins. The paint had a tendency to flow along the lines of the wood grain, which meant I kept having to expand the letters to cover all the runs.

Also I mistook the line I'd written to mark where the space went, for the line I'd written to mark where the end of the second 'E' went. Resulting in one E being bigger than the other. I've slightly stretched the first E to try to make it less obvious. But it's not ideal, and the S is just plain ugly.

The script I chose for 'library' is also slightly less than legible. So basically it's a learning experience all around!

The main problem with the shop sign is that I've painted one of the S's wider than all the other letters. I have a plan for rescuing that (which involved painting over it with the background colour.) But the seed library will have to be resigned to being rustic.

Eh, it's only going to go in the local (defunct) post box to be a seed library for the neighbourhood, and the one it's replacing is a plastic tub that used to contain birdseed, so the standards are not high, and it will be good enough for the purpose for which it is intended.

Sigh. I know it's going to take at least a year of practice, and that it's important to practice on lots of different types of things, and that I've learned quite a lot by doing this badly which will lead to me doing it better later, but I want to be good *right now*