Pink Chair-ity Auction Project Stage 1-"The Sealer"

A couple of weeks ago I was approached by a furniture company in Melbourne The Porch to take part in a Chair-ity Auction with them and with all proceeds going to National Breast Cancer Foundation.
I must admit that i do get asked alot to donate artworks, i do when i can and to what i think are worthy causes (most of them are) but it is hard to donate to everything! But my first thought here was YES, a week before my cousin was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer (which she is currently undergoing treatment for), and i have had several friends that have had it and won their battles thankfully, but i know many do not. Of course it's not only breast cancer that is the problem - it's all cancers, and this is just one charity out of many - we should all do what we can!
This is something that can happen to any of us at anytime and I want to do my bit to help to fight and to help further research.
Other artists so far that are donating are:
Peter Russell Clarke, Jamie Daddo, Suzie Wilks, Graeme Base, Jane Sinclair and Miranda Scoczek.
The chairs will be exhibited at Fed Square and then tour around our beautiful Melbourne for a bit then they will be auctioned on ebay!

I am going to post my progression through the blog starting today with Stage 1, hope you will take the journey with me, have a bit of fun and know that we are helping a very worthy cause...................

Well Julie from The Porch (an extremely lovely lady) brought my chair to me in a box which my partner and I assembled at home, i did make him read the instructions! I have to say this chair is amazingly comfy and immediately he was thinking of where he would put it until i reminded him that is was to be painted and auctioned :) Looks like we will be investing in a couple of them later down the track :)

I asked for my chair raw, in hindsight probably should have got it pre-painted, but today I sealed the chair to stop resin and tannins seeping through the paint, after one coat i thought it looked pretty good until my partner wandered past and told me to put another coat on! (he is a painter & decorator so i decided he would know more about this than myself) - after the 2nd coat i sanded and it looked grand! I am pleased now I have gone through this process as i have gotten to know my chair quite well. Also lucky for me my little daughter Abby was on hand to offer me advice :) It is now ready to be worked on!
I have posted photographs below of Stage 1 - "the sealer"