My dead cheap masterpiece

Anyone remember this? The rear side panel which was ripped from my beloved Ford Focus by a dumbo taxi driver who couldn't see through his windscreen because it was misted up. The rest of the car went to the great scrapyard in the sky, but I picked up this bit from the road and brought it home. It has been hanging on my living room wall ever since.

Time for a makeover I think. Now what can I do with it to jazz it up a bit. Get the little paint pots out and the brushes. My first idea was to finger paint it, but I didn't like the finish, so I stippled it with a brush. I like a stippled surface, you can hide uneven brush marks by stippling. I once did the kitchen walls in a previous house by stippling to cover up the uneven plaster.

Wadya think, cool eh! I love it.

It is hard to paint lines with straight edges on a curved surface, trying to keep my shakey hand still. I need one of those sticks with a soft ball on the end to use as a rest.

Think I'm going to look for some more car body bits to paint. This great work of art cost me nothing to make, maybe someone will be daft enough to buy my masterpiece. I like the idea of  painting odds and sods instead of a canvas or a board. I can't paint a picture for toffee, ha ha. Toodle pip.