What you need:
- The Desk (obviously). You can pick these up at garage sales occasionally, TradeMe, or Marketplace. But you don't have to do a desk. A bench top, coffee table, whatever.
- Resene Test Pots
Specifically, the colours I used are:
Main colour (Icing) Pink:
Glamour Puss
Sprinkles:
Poppy (red)
Turbo (yellow)
Home Run (turquoise)
Curious Blue (bright blue)
White/Black - Black Paint Pen - I used a bullet-shaped Posca
- Painters Tape
- Pencil/Rubber
- Brushes
- Screwdriver
- Varnish/Roller
- Spraypaint for legs of desk and arm hinge things
Step One:
Take apart your desk. You'll need to remove the legs and the hinges on the side where the lid lifts up. Make sure you remember which side is which – I did not 🤣
Spraypaint these (legs and hinges) with a spraypaint that is sweet for metal. I used a paint/primer and only needed one coat but let dry between flipping over to do the other sides.
Take the lid off and paint both sides pink. Draw your 'donut drip' around all four sides of the desk and paint this pink too, masking off the inside with blue tape. Do two coats of all this pink, letting everything dry between coats.
Step Two:
Once completely dry, mark out your sprinkle design with a pencil. I just lay the lid on for this, so I could seamlessly draw the sprinkles over the whole top, even the ones that go over the gap where the lid lifts. Download a donut sprinkle pattern to copy if you're not comfortable with drawing from your head but they're really just rounded rectangles, varying in direction. Just be sure to try to space them out evenly. I used a donut from The Simpsons as my inspiration but didn't really copy anything.
Step Three:
Colour in your sprinkles with a medium flat or round brush. Try not to have two colours too close to each other but use as many different colours as you like. Copy mine if you want.
I ended up doing three coats on these, just to make sure the yellow and white, especially, were vibrant and didn't show any of my brush marks. Don't forget the sides!
Step Four:
Mix a bit of black into your pink to make a colour for your sprinkle shadows. Don't be too fussy about where your shadows go, just as long as they are down one of the long sides of your sprinkle, they will make your outline pop. Use a small round brush for this.
Step Five:
This is my favourite bit. Use your black paint pen to go around each sprinkle. Move from top left to bottom right so you don't smudge as you go or do a few at a time and take a break in between to let the paint dry. Don't forget to do the outline around your drip on the sides.
Step Six:
Varnish all pieces (both sides of the lid) with clear wood varnish. Leave to dry for a day or two and then put all the pieces back together.
Donut stop marvelling at your new desk 🤣
© Kelly Vize 2024