Awhile back, I turned a simple bowl out of willow that was about as basic as you can get.  bland, no real grain in the wood, and the inside was nothing but a horrible collection of torn up end grain that simply couldn’t be sanded away.  After about an hour of sanding, with little progress to show, I decided to toss it in the heap and forget about it.  Since I’ve been experimenting with color lately, I was looking for something that I could practice on, without having to waste a “good” piece of wood.  Enter the crappy willow mistake…

I decided to play around with the iridescent paint again, only this time see if straight acrylic paint would show through the colors.  Since the coloring technique is called “cosmic cloud”, I figured why not try to make a nebula inside the bowl?  Gotta say, this one turned out WAY better than I ever expected.

Here are the before and after shots:

Here’s what the inside looks like, after applying the paints.