Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

Dee Henderson’s new project

by Cyndi on July 8th, 2008

You may remember that Dee Henderson shared some really fun bottlecap art awhile back, including a piece that utilized a keg to make a lamp for his son. Well, Dee is back at it! This time, it’s a 5L beer keg table lamp!

Dee writes:

• It’s was really pretty easy, since I didn’t have to spend hours rehabbing a regular keg- simply used a 5L Heineken consumer keg
• Rather than buying a lamp kit or parts, I simply used a “junker” lamp and recycled it for parts
• I painted and placed a based on the bottom, ran the electrical through the keg, and wired the switch…. and voila!
• I wasn’t crazy about the lamp’s the shade and above; so, while still using the original shade, I nailed a couple of Heineken bottle caps to a yellow golf ball to top it off!

If you’d like to contact Dee to swap lamp stories, you can email him!

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