Painting the umbrella

Have been wanting to try painting a fruit umbrella for the longest time - my favourite is the lemon. Unfortunately, it is not that easy to get a brolly that yellow in Singapore. Plus, you WILL get a lot of stares in this land of conformity, walking around with a giant lemon slice.

Since I bought a cheap umbrella from 7-11 from that rainy farewell, I decided to do my experiment on it. I didn't like the plastic looking 7-11 logo, so the first thing I did was to cover it. Needed some tape to line the paint-in area, and two coatings. Some paint got out of the line as I didn't tape it properly (oops, first time!)

Then I created some 'birds' with the tip of the brush.

I think the final product looks OK - a little whimsical, and very girly.

Now all I need is a drizzly day to test it.