Painting the lamp’s body
Once your glass was drying Betsy moved on to the the fun part… spray painting the little golden sections!
She wanted the base of the lamp to have an antique finish so that it fit in with the rest of the room.
So she started with a coat of white spray paint to cover all of the gold.
For this operation she laid all of the pieces out on a cardboard box and sprayed a light layer of paint.
Once the white dried Betsy sprayed a light layer of hammered spray paint.
After that the repainted was made only with simple flat grey spray paint.
A light coat of gray over the hammered effect leads the paint to crackle.