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Harry Potter inspired Potions Cabinet

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A Harry Potter inspired potions cabinet.

This began life as a small display cabinet made for me by my step-father to display bears at craft fairs. The side, doors, back and top were all made from perspex sandwiched between light-weight ply. As I haven't exhibited at a bear and doll fair for years it was a bit redundant but I didn't want to bin it so I've turned it into a potions cabinet to keep some of my art materials in.

I covered the perspex on the outside with more light-weight ply and added mitred frames then painted the whole thing black and decorated it with alchemical symbols. The inside was going to be quite a simple thing with the holders on the doors for brush jars and maybe a shelf at the top but then I started making little drawers and cupboards, mostly constructed from mount board and old bits of packaging and match boxes covered in printed paper and varnished - it's surprisingly strong with 2 coats of acrylic varnish. The little owls were a lucky find at a local craft market and the other decorations are just bits of broken jewelry, buttons, paper fasteners. The only things I bought new were the plywood, handles for the doors and the owls.

For those who like to know these things:
The design on the front doors is a simplified version of Alexander von Bernus's 'Soluna' - the seal of the spagyric laboratory
The back is Michael Maier's Viatorium
The runes on the sides and top are adapted from Severus Snape's speech during Harry's first potions lesson and read (left)"bewitch the mind", (top) "ensnare the senses", (right) "brew glory"

The design for the interior - stock texture [link] by :iconcloaks:
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