Spalted Apple Bowl

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Here is a 4 inch spalted Apple bowl, about 1.25 inches high. There was a bit of tear-out on the end grain which I decided to accentuate with a gold paint fill. I rubbed the paint into the pits and when dried, I sanded off the surface, leaving paint in the pits. I topped that off with 3 coats of shellac. In the photos there's a narrow depth of field so, one photo has the foreground in focus and the other has the background of the bowl in focus.