| Sandia McLean's KT Chicken Lot Lie | (Clare rtebetween the petals, Front Petals are Marigold placing them between the back petals but letting them overlap Shading: Shade around the centers onto the petals with Brunt Sienna, Next shade the back petals with Burnt Sienna, This will help to separate them and keep them behind the lighter petals, Highlights: On the back petals, use True Ochre and Marigold and dryorush or float alittle highlighting on the center of some of the petals mostly the ones closer to the sunshine. On the front petals dryorush conto the center of the petals with Moon Yellow and then sidelosd into Moon Yellow and add s final highlignt on @ few petats. At this time you may shape them a bit and tip off a few ends by cuttlining them Glazing: Next glaze with Country Red (thinned down with water or glazing medium eo that you only have a little color in your brush) and glaze across. the bottom petals of the sunflowers. Pattern for Sunflowers Canisters (Coffee Canister) Wee we x 4 i > Sy x, ‘| ‘ fl (Oya. as Leaves: Sketch the leaves in with Hauser Med Green, Shade with Hauser Dk Green put ina few veins, and highlight with Hauser Lt Green and, If you would like a few brighter highlights dip into the Moon Yellow and add a few highlights sparingly, CHICKENS There are some good demos of chickens and chicks In Chicken Pot Ple |, and Il. wish | could put them all in again but there Just isn’t enough space. But if you have those books you might want to review them, | picked one for the demo is this book that would be alittle different. With a #12 flat shader, brush mix Black ana White to make 4 middle value of Grey and basecoat the white areas of the chickens using the chisel side of the brush and working in strokes. Place the darker colors where the shadows are by picking up more Black and more White where the chicken Is lighter still brush mixing, not going too light too quickly, Paint the brighter highlights with White. For the brightest go straight into the White, this time using a liner brush and only painting the brightest highlights. The black areas of the chickens are painted with Black softened with White, Use a flat and work Ina a12 chisel zigzag method This. i sideload of Black. and do Yo Trewerk. with ‘Back Ld Gage a ee > LE, of White toned with a< Black until you build up Yv 2 fe tle #aiens oF ZF x Pita hn the Beene S 3B Peet, eyes, andbeak are (ee yD based huis ochre Sade: en Brn ye fs yy Sienna and Vo nono mG J Caan ensia rhe a et rar aye tana (0 ; Black eye pupil with Bis D 3 ihe of Y irl and @ white a dot for a _ \ near. con, ( C wattle, and wand tie ole Ag oie ea edious Moon oelai ataded With icouety Rad yin Biscke Baal nese aeeae Wien ce Binvertina Look your chickens over and if you want to add a little sunshine to the white areas of the ss chickens, add a glaze of Marigold plus a lot of water or ond aaa a few ) wats to ne Pe Chicks: ‘Stipple ih ( fee IN128 lighter colors on top. Start with the Honey Brown picking up Burnt Umber in the shadow areas, Next go lighter with the Honey Brown and the True PepsNonik for ieligterwent Los N at the photo for color placement. I, ™~ A You may think of little circles for ~“ Ly the heads and the bodies and AC or rm paint them accordingly, to make > Pa. . them lock round Aad the \ Paint uith Buttermilk that we SAV / trea wih te Soa ¢ > ~ Sroun,ahedewitna daze. \ —~ oF siete slats, a ee IP, * highlight with Le 4 ) Buttermik if youneed to inks. (ol GAeKNES ca ikide ore yeu, nd : iyo Sao aN Pattern for A Sunflowers Canisters (Sugar Canister) i 414 PUMPKIN POCKET Surface: Rusty Tin Pocket w/Screen, 8" Square 435-4705, Viking Noodcrafts American Decoart palette: Pumpkin Orange Burnt Orange, Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre, True Ochre, Marigold, Hauser Med Green, Hauser Lt Green, Hauser Dk Green, Moon Yellow, Lt Buttermilk Loew-cornell Brushes: *1 Script Liner, #0 Liner, 1/4" or 1/2" Stipplere, 86,8, £12 Shaders Pumpkin: Place pattern under the screen and tape in place. Paint the pumpkin with Pumpkin (2 times), shade with Burnt Sienna with a side load, and highlight by drybrushing with Yellow Ochre, Go ahead and paint as usual, you might think It cannot be seen, but It will, Paint the stem with Hauser Lt Green and shade with Hauser Med Green plus Hauser Dk Green, Border: Sponge Hauser Dk Green and then pick up Hauser Med Green and place under the area that will have the painted border. Pumpkins: Basecoat the pumpkins with Burnt Orange. This will take 2-3 coats. Drybrush the center and the top portion of the other sections of the pumpkin with Pumpkin plus Yellow Ochre. in a smaller area in the center section drybrush with Yellow Ochre plus Lt Buttermilk and last apply a Lt Buttermilk highlight. This will make it very bright. Shade with Burnt Sienna, across the bottom and on each side of the center section. Add stems with Hauser Med Green, highlight with Hauser Lt Green, and shade with Hauser Dk Green. Indicate some leaves using a side float with the greens. Sunflowers: These are simpler than the other flowers so some of the steps had been left out. Centers are stippled in using a small stippler and you don't have to clean the brush between the colors, You will start with the darker colors and as you go lighter, remember to paint 2 smaller area, not covering all of the darker color. Sunflowers have Burnt Umber centers stippled, and then pick up Burnt Sienna, and then Yellow Ochre, Petals: Use @ *6 flat shader to form the petals with one stroke. Back petals are True Ochre painting around the center leaving some space between the petals, Front Petals are Marigold placing them between the back petals but letting them overlap, Shading: Shade around the centers onto the petals with Brunt Sienna, Next shade the back petals with Burnt Sienna, This will help to separate them and keep them behind the lighter petals, Highlights: Drybrush on the center of the front petale with Yellow Ochre. Leaves: sketch the leaves in with Hauser Med Green. Shade with Hauser Dk Green put in a few veins, and highlight with Hauser Lt ereen. If you would like @ Few brighter highlights dip into the Moon Yellow and add a few highlights sparingly Finishing, Spray with Krylon Matte, #fus YS q Tt J“ a Twos, Dewy wy y OEE SO) BEM)16 CAPRICORN CALENDAR PANEL Surface: Arched Top Calendar #62125 with Insert #62126 from The Artist Club American Decoart palette: Canyon Orange, Jack o-lantern Orange, True Ochre, Yellow Ochre, Moon Yellow, Grey Sky, Country Red, Deep Burgundy, Hauser Med Green, Hauser Dk Green, Hauser Lt Green, Burnt umber, Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, Marigold, Country Red, Lt. Buttermilk, Buttermilk, Black, Sable Brown, White, Dioxazine Purple Loew-cornell Brushes: #1 Script Liner, #0 Liner, 1/4" or 1/2" Stipplers, *6,8, £12 Shaders, 272 Dome Round (good for drubrushing) Mise. Supplies: Faux Sponge. Prep: Basecoat the panelwith Grey Sky. Apply the pattern. Now lightly sponge around the basket with Burnt Umber plus a bit of Burnt Sienna and True Ochre. Wicker Horn of Plenty: base with Burnt Umber, add abit of Black on the lower edge to make it darker, pick up some Burnt Sienna and put in the center, Just slip slap It around. Working in 2 loose manner, Use the chisel edge of the brush or a rake, and put In the lighter pieces of wicker with Sable Brown. Switch to a liner brush and pick up Buttermilk with the Sable and keep adding the pleces working in the loose manner, and adding more Buttermilk in the lighter areas until you have some nice texture. IF you get to light, go back and shade along the bottom and under the rim of the basket with Burnt Umber with a touch of Black. Pumpkin; Basecoat with Canyon Orange. Shade with Burnt Sienna. Drybrush with Jack-o-lantern Orange, then add White to it gradually until you bulla tthe highlights. Green Gourd next to pumpkin: Basecoat with Hauser Med Green. Paint the bump on top with Buttermilk. Paint the lines with Hauser Dk Green and float a dark shade around the gourd, and then around the white bump on the gourd. shade with Hauser Med Green on the white bump. Build the highlights on the green part with Hauser Lt Green, then adding White to It until you have the highlights bright enough. On the white part add White highlights and the stem in the center. The stem Is Burnt umber with a Buttermilk highlight. Pointed Gourd in front of pumpkin: Base with True Cchre. Stipple Yellow Ochre to make the center raised portion. Paint Jack-o-Lantern Orange stripes. Highlight points with Yellow Ochre, Float around the center with Burnt Umber and on the center area float with Burnt Sienna, Add highlights with Lt Buttermilk end White. The center is Burnt Umber with Buttermilk highlights. Turnips: Base with Dio Purple plus Buttermilk ‘Shade with Dio Purple. Float White on the bottom of the one turnip and drybrush the highlight on the other, Add the stem with the greens, ‘Yellow onions: Paint True Ochre, shade with Burnt Sienna, and highlight with Buttermik. Add Burnt Sienna lines and hairs and highlight the hairs with buttermilk Apple: Base with Country Red, shade with Deep Burgundy, highlight with Red plus Moon Yellow. Add stem with Burnt Umber, highlight with Buttermilk, ‘Add White shine. Carrots: Base with Canyon Orange, shade with Burnt Sienna, highlight with Yellow Ochre, Broccoli: Base with Hauser Dk Green, stipple Hauser Med Green, highlight with Grey Sky and then Grey Sky plus Write. White Cauliflower: Base with Hauser Med Green, stipple Buttermilk in clusters, highlight with a bit of White on the top of clusters. Shade with Hauser Dk Green White gourd: Base with Grey Sky, Add Hauser Dk Green lines and afew dots, and stem. Highlight with Grey Sky plus White, then White, keeping the highlights on the tops of the rounded humps. Shade with thinned Hauser Dk Green, There are a few little green leaves around it. Paint with the greens,Green Cauliflower: Base with Hauser Dk Green, stipple with Med Green, and then with Lt Green plus Grey Sky. There are a few green leaves around this one also. Cc yelow/éreen Gourd Paint the top portion with True Ochre and the bottom portion with Hauser Dk Green. Paint > the lines with Yellow . ~ X Ochre and deyorush some on the gourd with = Jack-o- Lantern Orange” and agen shade (" Y con the bottom side of the gourd with Borntuntien. oA wit ena G Z round yellow ‘ is ae Base _- a ) ‘025 (= etre, aryprsh wen vetow ©] Ms wy, ure and pant uteri YA SY lines, shade first with Orange and again with thinned Burnt I Siema. Add a Burnt umber y € stem and highiight it with a ¢ sib teen Yellow and os aA Cx AiR, stens and Berries: umber In @ loose manner °o and tighight some itn Buttermilk, Paint the ~~ verries uith country \ Rea, float with Country 3° Red pus Moon velow on the” upper portion. shade the bottom 77 ] portion with Deep Burgundy, fi Fighign wth ab of Buttermik ana smushit uth your Finger Finishing: Look your piece over carefully. To — separate or push the Items back, shade with Burnt Umber and or Dio Purple. sparingly, Stippie or sponge lightly with True Ochre and a bit of Burnt Pattern for Sienna in front of ona little on the items. Highlight Capricorn with Yellow Ochre and a tiny bit with Buttermilk. calendar Panel20 CAPRICORN SUNFLOWER TRAY Surface: #550 Large rectangular with Sunflowers, 20-3/4 x 161/2" from R&M What Knots, wwwirmwhatknots.com,(206) 542-1542 American Decoart palette: Burnt Umber, Bright Orange, True Ochre, Cad Yellow, Burnt Orange, Pumpkin, White, True Ochre, Yellow Ochre, Sable Brown, Black, Hauser Lt Green, Hauser Med Green, Hauser Dk Green, Raw Sienna, Buttermilk, Lt Buttermilk, Lavender, Lilac, Dioxazine Purple, Plum Black Plum, Country Red, Deep Burgundy, Cad Orange, Burnt Sienna, Tangerine, Honey Brown Loew-cornell Brushes: 1/2" Filbert Rake, #1 Script Liner, #0 Liner, 1/4" or 1/2" Stlpplere, *6, 2,4 12 Shaders Misc. Supplies: Sponge, Prep: Basecoat the tray with Burnt Umber working the paint into the creases of the sunflowers, Sand and apply another coat of paint and apply the pattern Sunflowers on Tray: Start with the petals and paint the ones behind in Bright Orange and the ones on top with True Ochre. Highlight the Bright Orange ones with Cad Yellow and then a bit of Cad Yellow plus White. Highlight the True Ochre ones with Cad Yellow and shade at the base with Cad Orange. Highlight again with Cad Yellow plus White. The centers have Sable Brown drybrushed first and then add highlights with True Ochre. Float Black around the centers. Horn of Plenty: Use along liner brush and keep the lines loose, start with the darker colors and gradually work to the light colors and keeping it the lightest in the center areas, Brush mix the colors using Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, and Light Buttermilk. After you finish, go back and shade the bottom with Burnt Umber and a smaller float along the top, Purple cabbage: Base with Lavender and work a bit of Lilac Into the center as you basecoat It, using a slip slap motion. Shade the center with a bit ‘of Plum, Shade under the leaves and around the ‘outside with Dioxazine Purple. Highlight with Lilac and then add a bit of White to the Lilac, Breecoll: stipple with Hauser Dark Green picking up Dio Purple and stippling in the shadows. Next pick up Hauser Lt Green and apply the highlights apply the heaviest paint on the top and working down with less paint on your brush. ‘You may do this all at one time without washing the brush and you ill get brush mix quality. Tap on a few highlight by adding Lt Buttermilk for a few final highlights. Onion Tops: Basecoat with Hauser Med Green, shade with Hauser Dk Green, and highlight with Hauser Lt Green, and a few ends with Lt Buttermilk, ‘Small Gourd/squash under the Broccoll: Basecoat with Pumpkin, Shade with Burnt Umber, Stipple a bit Of Hauser Med Green and Dk Green in the creases, adda few streaks and dabs on the rest of It. Bull the highlights by dryorushing Pumpkin plus Yellow Ochre and gradually more Yellow Ochre and at the last a bit of Lt Buttermilk. The stem In the center is based with Burnt Umber plus Buttermilk, shaded with Burnt Umber and highlighted with Lt Buttermilk. Red Potato: Base with Country Red plus Raw Sienna, Shade with Burnt Umber and make eyes. Highlight eyes with basecoat plus Lt Buttermik and drybrush on the center portion of the potato. Shade again with Black Plum. Irish Potato: Base with Raw sienna plus Buttermilk, Shade with Raw Sienna and then Burnt Umber. Make eyes with Burnt Umber. Highlight with Lt Buttermilk, Shade along the bottom and next to horn with Black Plum, Yellow onions: Paint True Ochre, shade with Burnt Sienna, and highlight with Buttermilk, Add Burnt Sienna lines and hairs and highlight the hairs with buttermik. Reddish Purple onion: Basecoat with Country Red. Shade with Dio Purple. Build the highlight with Country Red plus Buttermik. Drybrush with Lt Buttermilk In streaky manner and float a bit of Buttermilk on the stem area- CHICKEN POT PIE VOL. 4 _ by Sandra McLean Sandre’s Graphics Layout and Design 4800 FM 1061, Amarillo, Texas 79 124 806-884-6415 or sandradmeemsn.com About the Author Sandra McLean has a love for painting and has been painting since 1974. She graduated college with honors, as an Outstanding Major in Commercial Art is 1486. In 1487 she won her first advertising awards while working for an advertising agency and went on to start her own freelance business. She Is an active member of The Golden Spread Chapter of The Society of Decorative Painters. Chicken Pot Fie Collection, Volume |, |, and Il, Monkey Business, and Cuisine D'art are her previous books. a Anote from sandra Like to paint in a casual and colorful style, as It seems to fit my personality, | Ike everything casual, my dress, my home, and my painting. | want my painting to look relaxed, not perfect as @ photograph though | do like photography, but | do not want my painting to look like one. | love a painterly look and | Ike colori There is something quite comforting to me about casual things and happy colors. | think each one of us develops our own style 80 I hope you can take some elements that you like and incorporate them into your own painting | want to thank my friends in our chapter for their encouragement, sharing ideas, the fellowship, and the love of painting. The time Just fies, as | get £0 happlly Involved in the alfferent projects, | usually never know where it is going to lead as it starts to develop and one thing call for another. | hope you wil find something in the book that you will want to paint. | try to include sub jects that some of you have requested and if you have an idea that you would lke to see, Just email me and! will start the thinking process, For now, get your brushes ready and start painting api As Sanaa Wea, ‘Al iis reserved under the Pan Acvarcan ard ral Copyvght CoNannoT= Exzep fr boot reveners, eho mey i revung ths pabieton, quate be! passages A ragaone or newspaper: ptcoopying by 2 mecraneal,elecvone, cig or any ‘tor menne, of any pot of fe pulcatn promoted, wh to exception ote ‘uchaser wo may mechanical enlarge or educe plans persona ute ony Teacers ay teoduce pallens fr teactng puoses ony but no fee to be charge Ect copes ante rt conta hohe Ook ie Asta ame oe ‘Te SoniTans ay Goins be eproauced Tor nase parking Owed fe OB ‘uation or ranenited dgtaly, sectoncaly, mecranealy. of by any ormeton fetova stem 07 snare uth other amber of ut grup. eka roms, oon) (tor assembiy wut expres wren puma rm te author oF what eening Shyoerent th he author Ieermation nis book s presentedn god lath. Since no contol over the physica ‘conconssrranding the applzaton of te formation contain reins pose, 0 ‘rang sven oth user rating to the mars used ths Book, a he este. ‘Would you Ike to meat people who shere the same love of painting as you? Become a member of The Society of Decorative Painters ‘S88 N. Mclean Blu, Wichita, KS 67203-5968 Datrted by Essential Authors Services Ltd. P.O. Box 22088 St. Louis, MO. 63126 Ph: 814-892-0202 FAX: 314-892-9607 Web: www. EASLpublications.com bast —Green Gourd: Basecoat with Hauser Med Green, Paint the bump on top with Buttermilk. Paint the lines with Hauser Dk Green and float a dark shade around the gourd, and then around the white oump onthe gourd, Shade with Hauser Med Green on the white bump. Build the highlights on the green part with Hauser Lt Green, then adding White to it until you have the highlights bright enough. On the white part add White highlights and the stem in the center. The stem is Burnt Umber with a Buttermilk highlight Turrips: Base with Plum. Add Lt Buttermilk to the lighter areas and blend where they meet. Shade with Dio Purple and highlight with Lt Buttermilk. Pointed Gourd In front of pumpkin: Base with True Ochre. Stipple Yellow Ochre to make the center raised portion. Paint orange stripes. Highlight points with Yellow Ochre. Float around the center with Burnt Umber and on the center area float with Burnt Sienna. Add highlights with Lt Buttermilk and White, The center Is Burnt Umber with Buttermilk highlights. Turrips: Base with Dio Purple plus Buttermilk, Shade with Dio Purple. Float White on the bottom of the one turnip and dryorush the highlight on the ‘other. Add the stem with the greens. Large Orange Gourd: Sasecoat with Burnt range. Shade around the outside with Burnt Umber, more at the bottom and less at the top. Add Hauser Dk Green to the top and the lines coming out into the orange area to make the sections. Bulld the highlights in these sections gradually, starting with Pumpkin, then Pumpkin plus Tangerine, then Tangerine and Yellow Ochre and on the lower part go a little lighter by adding Lt Buttermilk. (thie is to make it appear closer) Stipple Hauser Med Green on some of the darker areas of green, more to the front and the bump on top. There is some orange on the top bump also. Use a mix of Burnt Umber and Buttermilk to paint the lines on the top bump and around the bump, darker at the back and lighter in the front areas There are some bumps and the center stem area that are painted with Burnt umber and Lt Buttermiik stippled or floated on the top of each bump, again keeping the ones in front lighter than the ones at the back of the gourd. You may float Burnt umber on the back ones, Pointed Gourd: Basecoat with True Ochre.21 Drybrush stripes with Yellow Ochre and some with Pumpkin. Shade around the top oump with Burnt umiver, along the bottom edges almost to the top, ‘and around the center stem area Stipple Burnt Umber in the center and then stipple Buttermilk cover it, more on the top edge. Add a few Lt Buttermilk highlights. ‘Small yellow squash at the far right side: Basecoat with True Ochre. Shade with Honey Brown. Highlight with Yellow Ochre plus Lt Buttermilk and applying with a drybrush, Stipple abit of Hauser Dk Green inthe creases, Add stem with a dab of Burnt Umber under and a highlight of Buttermilk stems and Berries: Palnt stems with Burnt Umber in a loose manner and highlight some with Buttermilk, Paint the berries with Country Red, Float with Country Red plus Yellow Ochre on the upper portion. shade the bottom portion with Deep Burgundy. Highlight with a dab of Buttermilk and smush it with your Finger. Sunflowers andleaves: Refer to the directions for the sunflowers on the canisters. Finishing: Sparingly. Stipple or sponge lightly with True Ochre and a bit of Burnt Sienna around the plece, some in front of the items, and some in the background, Highlight with Yellow Ochre and a tiny bit with Buttermilk Look your plece over carefully. To separate or push the items back, shade with Burnt Umber and in the darkest areas use Dio Purple. Finish with your favorite varnishx ms NE , Wi MI Fy \ x24 YEAR OF THE ROOSTER Surface: Arched Top Calendar with insert from The Artist Club, # 184103 American Decoart palette: Black, White, Lt Buttermilk, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, True Gold, Moon Yellow, Calypso Blue, Country Red, Grey Sky, Honey Brown, Antique Gold, True Ochre Loew-cornell Brushes: #1 Script Liner, #0 Liner, 1/4" Stipplers, #68, #12 Shaders, 1/8” Lettering Brush ( a small flat will work also), 1/4” Small Rake Mise. Supplies: Chicken Wire Stencil, sponge for Faux Planting, Black Americana Satin Enamel Prep: The calendar is painted with Americana Satin Enamel, After It le very dry. sand the edges to give it @ worn look. By using the Satin Enamel, you do not have to varnish, which is nice over the black because sometimes that will leave a white film. OF course you may paint It In your choice of color. Basecoat the pane! or the back of the calendar with Grey Sky. Let Gry and apply the pattern Rooster: The rooster is painted with the same method that | have previously used in the other Chicken Pot Ple books, This ls a loose method using the chisel side of a email flat. Also | start with a darker color and apply lighter colors on top leaving hints of the darker colors in some areas and more For the shaded areas. Start with the breast and apply a grey made with Black plus White. Use the chisel side of the brush to basecoat to start the direction of the feathers. Alco if you start at the back and paint the feather that lay over, working them up to the neck area. Keep picking up more White and chisel over the darker color, continuing to add more Mhite. The final highlight Is Lt Buttermik. Use the same colors to paint the wing, Body: Work up into the neck and back are with Brown Umber and Burnt Sienna, all the way under the gold tail feathers, Look at the picture or pattern to see the direction of the feathers, The back Is left darker and the top of the wing. For the final highlight use True Ochre, The neck feathers are short strokes and lighter. From the Burnt Sienna, pick up Honey Brown, then True Ochre then True Ochre plus Moon Yellow. Tip some of the feathers off with Moon Yellow plus Lt Buttermilk, Next paint in the Black tall feathers with Black. Using a smallrake, a # 1/4” and Grey Sky to highlight these, pulling and lifting in the correct direction, The blue Feathers are next and are also based Black. Then use Calypeo Blue end the small rake to add the blue details. Some of them you may Just highlight with a small float using the side of 2 email Fat. The next feathers will be the gold ones and they overlap the blue ones. (These were based in with the body up the back.) Pull these in with the side of a flat ‘and stroking them In, First with Honey Brown, then some with True Ochre. Highlight them with Antique Gold pus Lt Buttermilk, getting lighter on the lightest ones, You may need to shade with Burt Sienna to separate some of these. The wattle and como and around the eye Is painted with Country Red, shaded with Country Red pls Black. Stipple in the lights first with Country Red plus Meon ‘Yellow then Moon ‘Yellow plue Lt Buttermilk on the lightest areas, The eye Is a black dot with a White highlight. The beak Is True Ochre, shaded with Burnt Sienna and highlighted with Moon ‘Yellow and then Lt Buttermilk 1e feet are based with True Ochre, shaded on both sides with Burnt Sienna, and then again on the back side with Burnt umber. Add a little Moon Yellow highlight on the front let and a couple of the front toes. The lines are Burnt Umber. The toenalis are Black with @ White highlight. Finishing: Use a stencil or freehand the chicken wire with True Ochre and then the thinned Black to outline ‘some of these. The chicken wire frames the rooster. ‘The lettering is painted with the thinned Black using a 1/8" lettering brush. Sponge with thinned Burnt Sienna, Honey Brown, and True Ochre, at the last picking up a bit of Lt Buttermik. You don't need to ash the sponge between colors. Be sure tokeep it ‘sparse, you want to leave some of the background color. Paint in some sketchy grass/weeds with Burnt Sienna and then a few with thinned Black (to make a grey), Paint in alittle ground with Burnt Umber.2 : EGGS FOR SALE CALENDAR PANEL surface: 62125 Arched Top Calendar with Insert #62126, The Artist Club American Decoart palette: Avocado, Lt Avocado, slate Grey, Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Black, Country Red, Yellow Ochre, True Ochre, Deep Burgundy, Hauser Med Green, Hauser Lt Green, Yellow Green, Hauser Dk Green, Nhite, Lt Buttermilk, Buttermilk, Sapphire, Uitramarine Blue Leew-cormell Brushes: #1 Script Liner, #0 Liner, 1/4" or 1/2" Stigplers, "6,8, £12 Shaders, 10/5 Plaid Striper Mise. Supplies: Sponges, Weathered Nood Prep: Basecoat with Avocado. Sponge Lt Avocado over that using a faux sponge. Put on a Few lines to keep the picket fence straight. Fence: Using the 10/5 Loew-Cornell Plaid Striper paint the fence with Slate Grey. If you don't’ have ‘one, oF course you may use @ wide brush and a narrow one or you could use tape to keep it straight, if you prefer a newer Fence. Put crackle over this and let dry. Put @ coat of Buttermilk over that. Shade with Raw Umber on the cross boards behind the pickets. Glaze over the pickets with Burnt Umber lightly in a random manner over the white pickets. Apply the pattern, Pink Bucket Is based with Country Red plus Yellow Ochre. Shade with Country Red and then a smaller shade with Deep Burgundy. Highlight with Yellow (Ochre and a final shine with Lt Buttermilk Green Bucket is based with Hauser Med Green plus Lt Buttermilk. Shade with Hauser Med Green and then a smaller shade with Hauser Dk Green. Highlight with Hauser Lt Green and then abit of Lt Buttermik. Yellow Bucket is based with Yellow Ochre; shade with True Ochre and again with Burnt Sienna. Highlight with Yellow Ochre plus Lt Buttermilk and again with Lt Buttermilk Greenery and Flowers: Add more greenery with Hauser Med Green; again, you may use the Faux sponge, Put some greenery in, the paile on each end, some along the bottom of the picket fence, and some overhanging limbs at the top. Next add highlights, using the same sponge and picking up Hauser Lt Green and adding to the limbs and along the bottom of the Fence. Add some limbs lat the top using Burnt Umber and a mix of Burnt Umber and Lt Buttermilk for the highlight. ‘The pink bucket has White Flowers init, made with a small filoert or # 4 round, press down and lift as you near the center, Add dots to the centers using True Ochre and then ‘Yellow Ochre. Shade with Hauser Dk Green under the flowers. ‘The yellow bucket has smallleaves made with a small flat or round using the various greens, There are little blue flowers using Sapphire, highlighted with Sapphire plus White, shaded with a bit of Ultramarine Blue. Again, use True Ochre and then ‘Yellow Ochre dots for the centers. Sponge a few blue flowers to the grassy area at the bottom. ‘The green bucket has straw painted using True Ochre and Yellow Ochre. The eggs are painted with Buttermilk, highlighted with Lt Buttermilk and then a float of White across the top. Add splatter of Burnt Sienna to the buckets, Also a few dents may be added using a small float of Burnt Sienna. The hinges on the gate is also Burnt Sienna, outline with Black and add nalls with Slate and underlined with Black. The Sign Is Lt Buttermilk with White drybrushed over It. Add Burnt umber details and Black lettering, ‘The rooster has a Lt Buttermilk breast, some True Ochre added In, The wings are True Ochre with Black chiseled In, The neck Is True Ochre highlighted with Yellow Ochre and some Black linework. The tail is Black strokes with a little outlining with Black. The wattle and comb and around the eye Is Country Red, highlighted with Country Red plus Yellow Ochre and then abit of Lt Buttermilk. Shade with Deep Burgundy. The beak and feet are True Ochre and highlighted with Lt Buttermilk, shade with Burnt Sienna, The eye is a Black dot with a White highlight| \ I ! 1 | | | | ( a anoka McLean’ v a F |2 SUNNY CHICKENS ON CALENDAR Surface: Arched Top Calendar with Insert from The Artist Club, # 18.4103 American DecoArt palette: Country Red, Moon ‘Yellow, Marigold, True Ochre, Honey Brown, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Bittersweet Chocolate, Deep Teal, Hauser Lt Green, Hauser Med Green, Hauser Dark Green, Lt Buttermilk, Black Loew-Cernell Brushes: #1 Script Liner, #0 Liner, 1/4" or 1/2° Stipplers, #68, £12 Shaders, Large Rake Mise. Supplies: Faux Sponge Prep: Seal the wood and basecoat with Country Red. Add a few streaks of Marigold coming from the top left using the rake. Apply the pattern, It ia not necessary to draw on all the petals on the flowers. if you need to, you could draw a line down the middle so you would know the direction to place them. They look more natural if you can paint them with a stroke. Flowers: Centers are stippled in using a small stippler and you don't have to clean the orush between the colors. You will start with the darker colors and as you go lighter, remember to paint a emailer area, not covering all of the darker color. Sunflowers have Burnt Umber centers stippled, then pick up Burnt Sienna, then Honey Brown, working in the lighter areas around the dark center, then pick up a touch of True Ochre, then mayoe even a tish of Merigold or Moon. Shade with Bittersweet chocolate, Petals; Use 2 #10 flat shader to form the petals with one stroke. Back petals are True Ochre painting around the center leaving some space between the petals. Front Petals are Marigold placing them between the back petals but letting them overlap Shading: Shade around the centers onto the petals with Brunt Sienna, Next shade between the petals to separate them, keeping more of the shadows on the back petals. Highlights: On the back petals, use True Ochre and Marigold and dryprush or Flost a little highlighting on the center of some of the petals mostly the ones closer to the sunshine. On the front petals dryorush onto the center of the petals with Moon ‘Yellow and then sideload into Moon Yellow and add a final highlight on a few petals, At this time you may shape them a bit and tip off a few ends, Glazing: Next glaze with Country Red (thinned down with water or glazing medium so that you only have a little color in your brush) and glaze across the bottom of the sunflowers. Leaves: Sketch the leaves in with Hauser Med Green. Shade Highlight with Hauser Lt Green, and shade with Hauser Dk Green and put Ina few velne with the Dk Green. if you would like a few brighter highlights dip Into the Moon Yellow and add a few highlights sparingly, Chickens: Use the chisel edge of the brush to zigzag the feathers of the chickens. Change to White Chickens, Small Chicken: The body is Black plus Lt Buttermilk to make a dark grey and shaded with Black. The neck feathers are Deep Teal plus Moon Yellow, (add a few highlights to the wings at this time) and shade with Deep Teal and a few stronger highlights with Moon Yellow. Large Rooster: His body Is True Ochre, shaded with Honey Brown; his neck feathers are Marigold shaded with Marigold plus Country Red. The wing feathers are Black highlighted with Deep Teal plus Moon Yellow and a few touches of Lt Buttermik, ‘The tall feathers are done with the #10 shader and strokes pulling them in using the colors on the palette, Then add Lt Buttermik drybrushed on for the highlights. ‘You may use a few Black lines to separate the feathers, The feet and beaks are painted with True Ochre, shaded with Burnt Sienna and highlighted with Moon Yellow. Paint the toenails Black and add a little linework to the shaded side. The comb and wattle are painted with Country Red. plus Moon Yellow, shaded with Country Red plus Black, and a Moon Yellow highlight. Outline the shadow side with Black and the highlight side with a Few lines of Lt Buttermilk.‘ME Coe A Me ‘¢ BG | RY) a yyy Sy = Z a ; i)30 FALL TRIANGLE CONTAINER Surface: #35-4708 Rt Tlangle 4° Container, Viking Wooderafte, Inc, American Decoart palette: Canyon Orange, True Ochre, Yellow Ochre, Hauser Med Green, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, Marigold, Country Red, Buttermilk, Honey Brown, Deep Burgundy, Moon Yellow Loew-Cornell Brushes: #1 Script Liner, #0 Liner, 1/4" or 1/2" Stipplers, *6,8, 412 Shaders, 272 Dome Round, #0 Round Stroke Mise, Supplies: Sponge, Prep: Cut the leaves out of sponge material and sponge on using Canyon Orange, True Ochre, ‘Yellow Ochre and abit of Hauser Med Green SUNFLOWERS Centers are stippled in using @ small stippler and you don't have to clean the brush between the colors, You will start with the darker colors and ‘as you go lighter, remember to paint a smaller area, not covering all of the darker color. Sunflowers have Burnt Umber centers stippled, then pick up Burnt. Sienna, then Honey Brown, working in the lighter areas around the dark center, then pick up a touch of True Ochre, then maybe even a tish of Marigold or Yellow Ochre. Petals: Use a 10 flat shader to form the petals with one stroke. Back petals are True Ochre painting around the center leaving some space between the petals, Front Petals are Marigold placing them between the back petals but letting them overlap Shading: Shade around the centers onto the petals with Brunt Sienna, Next shade between the petals to separate them, keeping more of the shadows on the back petals. Highlights: On the back petals, use True Ochre and Marigold and dryorush or float a little highlighting on the center of some of the petals mostly the ones closer to the sunshine. On the front petals dryorush onto the center of the petals with Yellow Ochre and then sideload into Yellow Ochre and add 2 final highlight on a few petals. You may even want, to add a bit of Buttermilk for a few lightest areas. At this time you may shape them a bit and tip off @ Few ends (oy outlining). More Shading: Glaze over the flowers with thinned Burnt Umber and Burnt Sienna to set them into the background. Seedpods: Stipple these using the 272 Dome Round starting by basecoating with Yellow Ocrre. It covers well but you may need two coats. Shade first with Raw Sienna, stippling out leaving the center light. Then glaze with a thin float of Burnt Sienna and then a smaller amount of Gurnt Umber, The top pert has dark under it using Burnt Umber. Then pull little lines using Raw Sienna highlight with Yellow Ochre. Spikey seedpode: Stipple with Rew Sienna and ‘Yellow Ochre, doing this In a smaller form than the final will be. Next add Burnt Umber filing most. of the area, Next using a email liner brush, pull out with little lines using Yellow Ochre and then Buttermilk. When dry, glaze with thinned Burnt Umber across the bottom for some shading Wheat: Using 3 #0 Round Stroke and brush mixing with Raw Sienna and Yellow Ochre, make the Individual kernels by touching down and pulling and lifting, Apply them to each side and then some in the middle over those with the lighter colors, Red berries or Rose hips: Base with country Red, stipple with Country Red plus Yellow Ochre, Shade with Deep Burgundy, Put dabs of Burnt Umber and highlight them with a bit of Moon Yellow Finishing: Anywhere that you became to light in your values, you may push it back by glazing it with thinved Burnt Umber. Look your plece over and if something stands out too much, that will be where you might need to push It back, remembering that your brightest areas should be in the center with the largest seedpod and then up to the top one. Now glaze behind the flowers or seedpods, anywhere you need to separate or push It back using the thinned Burnt Umber. Sponge with any of the leaf colors to fill any areas that look vacant and a bit over some of the Flowers or seeds.PROJECT INDEX Source of Supplies... Different Techniques Demo-Sunflowers ¢ Chickens. Weathervane Shelt 18 Eggs For Sale Calendar Panel 22. 26-217 (color photo on page Fe) (color photo on page 17) Ay Chicken Triangle container a ‘Sunny Chickens ‘on Calendar .. 28-24 (color photo on Fe) sunflower Canisters 10-18) (color photo on 17) Fall Triangle Container 30-81 (coler photo on Fe) Pumpkin Pocket - 214-1 SR el (color photo on re) capricorn calendar Panel 16, tal (color photo on 17) Calico Funky Chicken Tiles eal (color photo on 18) Tassels ssi (color photo on irc) (color photo on 18) Capricorn bP Suflower Tray ia 20-28! (color photo on iRc) eationvais eat onsroutiake — [oT er al Veneatne (coler photo on 88) Year of the Rooster 24-28 Sled with Poinset 38-24! (color photo on 17) (color photo on 25) Fancy Snowman (color photo on page 25) Snowflake Plate with Poinsettia's 4 aoe (color photo on 85) Bird Retweet 42-48] (color photo on Be) Robin 44-45) (eoler photo on isc) White chicken © on Rusty chime sees saeeveees SOLA, (eolor photo on IB) Our Dally Bread . 47-40) (eoler photo on ise) Sunflower Basket teseeeees 4a-Bol (color photo on IBC)82 CALICO FUNKY CHICKEN TILES Surface: Viking Noodcrafts, ¥35-4643 6-Embossed Checks Tin Tile, 12x12" Frames, #20- 10546 American Decoart palette: Country Blue, Yellow ‘Ochre, True Ochre, Canyon Orange, Deep Teal Country Red, Black, Buttermilk, Deep Burgundy Loew-Cornell Brushes: #1 Script Liner, #0 Liner, 174" or 1/2" Stippiers, "6,8, £12 Shaders, 1° Wash brush or large Flat. Mise. Supplies: Enamel Black Small check stencil, Americana Prep: Paint the sections around the sides with the different colors: Country Blue, Yellow Ochre, Canyon Orange, Deep Teal, and Country Red and the center is Black. After it dries, dryorush with Buttermilk. Lay the brush almost horizontal to the surface and hit the high parts using alarge 1" wash brush. Red Chicken: It may take a few coats but basecoat chicken with Country Red and the comb, wattle, and head with Canyon Orange. Shade the body with Deep Burgundy end the Orange parts with Country Red, Use a small check stencil, stencil with Buttermilk to the body applying the loaded brush In the lightest areas and let the paint fade ut as you near the shadow areas. The beak Is ‘Yellow Ochre shaded with True Ochre. Outline the head with Black and Buttermik. Add a Black eve with Buttermilk highlight. ‘The tall has a Deep Teal stroke with a Buttermilk ‘emailer stroke over it, the checks are Country blue and the linework Is Buttermilk, For the straw under the chicken, use all the colors on the palette but more of the Yellow Ochre and True Ochre. Dryorush Buttermilk to the background and add some Buttermik dots, Green Chicken; Paint the same as the red chicken except use Deep Teal on the body of the chicken and the stroke at the tall of the chicken Is Country Red. Finishing: Apply your favorite varnish, | like to put a frame with the tiles and it is painted with Black and the edges are sanded to look worn, \like to use the Americana Satin Enamel in Black because you do not need to put ary varnish over it. ©The tassels are fun to paint. If you need different colors, that is easy to change. The more contrast you can get with your colors, the better. Dont worry if all your lines and dots are rot pertect, by the time you get them all done, It will lock good. OF course, you may wish to change the dots and stripes to.amctif you prefer. Just let your imagination go, Surface: Tassel Pleces #1852, "1853,481854 from Bear With Us, Inc. ‘American Decoart palette: Country Red, Moon ‘Yellow, Antique Gold, Lt Buttermilk, Black Leew-cernell Brushes; #1 Script Liner, #O Liner, 1/4" or 1/2" Stipplers, #6,8, 412 Shaders Prep: No prep Tassel #1 882- larger knob on top: Basecoat the center Black, the knob Moon Yellow, and the lower band with Country Red. Trace three chickens (all the same pattern) on in approximately the same distance between them. Paint the chickens Lt Buttermik with a Moon Yellow beak and feet. Mix Country Red plus Moon Yellow to paint the combs. Add Black shading (using thinned paint) along the bottom of the chicken and paint Black linework and Black dots. There Is Moon ‘Yellow dot flowers with country Red centers. On the red band there are Black centers and Moon Yellow centers. On the knob on top, there are red stripes with red dots between, then add 2 of the red dots on the Black area and add 8 yellow dots to the last one. Refer to photo. Tassel #1853. with Round knob on toy Basecoat the top round knob with Moon ‘Yellow and the bottom portion with Country Red, Put the pattern on for the funky chicken and basecoat It with Country Red and using a ‘small stencil apply Moon ‘Yellow checks to the chicken, except the head. Float a Moon ‘Yellowhighlight to the top of the head and the top of the como, and the wattle, Shade along the bottom of the chicken with Deep Burgundy 38 TASSELS Paint a Moon Yellow beak and eye. Add a Black dot to the center of the eye and then highlight that with s smaller white dot for abhighlight. Add Black linework in the places that you need It, such ae the beak, and mayoe the top of the wattle. Add tall with strokes and strokes under the chicken with True Ochre, shade with a bit of True Ochre plus Deep Burgundy and highlight with True Ochre plus Moon Yellow. Add a few Country Red checks to fillin some of the extra space ‘on the yellow portion. Add Moon Yellow dots to the upper portion of the red base and checks around the flat edge. Tassel # 1854- with smaller kno’ on top: Basecoat the center section with Country Red, the lower portion with Meon Yellow and the top portion Black Yellow sunflowers are the same as shown on the demo page, but with a few steps left out to simplify them, The back petals are Antique Sold and the ones in front are Moon Yellow. Shade with Burnt Umber to separate petals, Add a Burnt umber dot in the center with mall Moon Yellow dots for highlights. The leaves are thinned Black, painted with a stroke. Add Black stems. The top portion is Black; add Moon ‘Yellow stripes coming from the center. | divided the top measuring from the hole, first in 4ths and then into Sths, just eyevaliing It, remember It doesn’t have to be perfect. Put little Country Red dots on the yellow stripes. Add Black checks to the bottom, using the width of a *6 flat shader, Put red dote on the yellow checks. Add red dots to the top of that section To make the yarn tassels wrap the yarn around a cardboard that ie cut to the length that youwant. Lay a piece of yarn at the top to tle It all together when finished. Youmay want to tape It down. Wrap the yarn around it until you have the amount that you think you willneed to make a full tassel. Tie the top end off with the plece that youlald across, and then cut the other end, | used a small wire to fish It through the top and tle it off at the base and again at the top. There are many different yarns you may use. | used the Chenille, “Thick 4 Quick", and Wild Child Eyelash Yarn, and Ticker Tape Yarn, Use whatever you prefer. ‘You could buy the yarn you want and ad ust your colors to fit. =84 WEATHERVANE ORNAMENT ON SNOWFLAKE This is 2 simple ornament to paint but so cute. It would look good on any Christmas tree or used for decoration to accentuate your country home. Surface: Large Fancy Snowflake #62116, The Artist Club American Decomrt palette: Country Red Holly Green, Hauser Dk Green, Antique Sold, White, Cool White, Burnt Umber, Buttermilk Leew-cornell Brushes: #1 Script Liner. #0 Liner, 1/4" or 1/2" Stipplers, #6,8, 612 Shaders Mise. Supplies: Sponge Prep: Paint snowflake White. Stipple or sponge Cool White over the white. Apply the pattern, Red/nnite Neathervane: Basecoat the neck and tall with Buttermilk, Paint the body, comb, and wattle with Country Red. Paint the red stripes, iF the brush skips abit, that is ok. It will just look old, Drybrush highlights with Country Red plus Buttermik. Add a Black eye with White highlight. Paint the beak and the post with Antique Gold, Shade with Burnt umber on the gold area, the bottom side of the chicken, Including the tail, Finishing: using a #1 script liner, paint a line to outline the snowflake with a mix of Hauser Dk Green and Holly Green. Don't worry if you are not great with a liner because after It dries you may Sand the lines a bit to look worn, Splatter with the same mix, Paint the NS Black.oF DEMO SUNFLOWERS: centers: 1.Stipple with Burnt umber. 2. Stipple with Burnt Sienna, not covering all the Burnt umber. 3. Stipple with Honey Brown, again a lesser amount. 4, Stipple the highlight with Moon Yellow, again lesser. Petals: 1, Base the back petals with True Ochre, using a #10 shader. 2. Base the front petals with Marigold, overlapping them over the back petals. 3, Shade with Burnt Sienna around the center and on the back petals under the top petals, 4. Highlight by aryorushing and sometimes Floating- the back petals with True Ochre plus Marigold, and the front petal with Marigold plus Moon Yellow and then Moon Yellow and last a bit of White added to Moon Yellow on a few petals, Leaves: 1. Base with Hauser Med Green and the #10 shader. 2. Shade with Hauser Dark Green 3. Highlight with Hauser Lt Green. 4. Highlight again with Moon Yellow on your lightest side. CHICKENS: 1. Base chicken In by brush mixing Black and White with a #12 flat shader using the chisel side of the brush and working In strokes. Place the darker colors where the shadows are by picking up more Black, and picking up more White where the chicken is lighter 2. Still brush mixing, not going too light too quickly, start building the lighter colors. 3. Bulld to the highlights still using the chisel edge of the brush and adding the lightest colors in the lightest areas. 4, Shade under the wing and a bit under the neck feathers with thinned Black, and at the head near the eye and wattle. Now add the white highlights to the tail feathers, Paint the brighter highlights with White WATTLE, COMB, AND AROUND THE EYE: 1. Basecoat with Country Red. 2. Quickly while the red is still damp, tap in some Country Red plus Moon Yellow to start the highlights. 3. Now bulld the highlight by adding Moon Yellow, 4, Shade with Country Red plus a tish of Black between the head and the comb and a few other shaded areas, Eye: 1. Paint the eye with Antique Gold, 2. Add a Black pupll 3. Underline the bottom portion with a thin Black line. 4. Highlight the gold Iris with Buttermilk and add a Waite highlight to pupil Beak: 1. Basecoat with True Ochre, 2. Shade with Burnt Sienna. 3. Highlight with Moon Yellow. 4. Add a thin Black line between the beak anda tiny ‘outline under the beak and a small outline on the back of the wattle Glazing: Lock your chickens over and if you want to add a little sunshine to the white areas of the chickens, add a glaze of Marigold plus a lot of water or glazing medium to thin your paint, ang glaze over the lightest areas. ‘You will add the straw using the chisel side of the brush with Honey Brown, True Ochre, Marigold, and Moon Yellow, pulling some up onto the chicken,38 SLED WITH POINSETTIAS Hef Painting the poinsettias is almost like painting the sunflowers, you can use the same strokes and basic plan, Just change the colors and a few of the details. Surface: Viking Noodcrafts, # 15-4078, 25 1/2" Runmers, 14 1/2"x 5 3/4" painting surface American Decoart palette: Buttermilk, Lt Buttermilk, Shale Green, Country Red, Deep Burgundy, Brandy Wine, Lt Buttermilk, Hauser Lt Green, Hauser Med Green, Hauser Dk Green, Arbor Green, Plantation Pine, Burnt Umber Loew-Cornell Brushes; #1 Script Liner, #0 Liner, 1/4" or 1/2" Stipplere, #6,8, 10, 412 Shaders, 1/2" #247 Crescent Drybrush, 1/47 Rake Special supplies: Weathered Wood for crackling, Circle template or stencil, 1/4” circle for berries. Prep: Basecoat the sled with Buttermilk Then paint the top with Shale Green The sides have crackle aoplied over the Buttermilk, let dry and paint with Country Red The rest of the piece, | painted with Country Red and when dry, dryerush a little Dark Burgundy here and there, and sand it a bit, especially on the edges, Drybrush Country Red on the Shale Green, veryligntly, Youmay always add more at ailater time iF you feel youneed more, Put the pattern on Ribbon: The ribbon is painted with Deep Burgundy, shaded with Brandy Wine, and highlighted with Deep Burgundy plus Lt Buttermilk, oullaing the highlights gradually and gettinglighter as you go. You may float, or drybrush the highlights or use both methods, Poinsettias: Paint the petals with ans stroke using the shaders, same as the sunflowers. Refer to the demo for the sunflowers and think Red. The back petels are painted with Country Red, using a #10 shader for the larger flowers and a #2 on the H SHAN Aawoea McLean or smaller ones. The next row of petals will go between, but overlapping the back petals and will be smaller and painted with Country Red plus Lt Buttermilk, ‘You may brush mlx but keep the value a few shades lighter than the back petals. The final petals are a lighter mix of the same, Country Red plus Lt Buttermilk, but using more Lt Buttermilk to make a Few shades lignter than the middle row. | painted all the back petals and then went to the next color, Just to speed things up. (mass production) You may want to paint one complete flower before starting this process, just for trial Shading: Shade the back row of petals with Deep Burgundy, the second and third row of petals with Country Red, shading the front petals near the center of the flower also using Country Red and a bit of Deep Burgundy on the bottom side under the centers. Pull in the center vein lines with the shading color, pulling the center ones past the petal into the center under the green dots, Highlighting: Your highlights should get lighter on the front petals, less on the second row, and even less ‘on the back row. The front row will be straight Lt Buttermilk. Float on the edges of the petals, fading ‘out as you near the center and/or the ends, although you may tip off some of the ends, by ‘outlining, The second row of petals is highlighted with Lt Buttermik with a bit (very minute) of Country Red added. Put more of the highlights on the middle. You may even pull a few veins In with the lighter color. if you need you could change to a small rake. These are suotle. On the back row, use Lt Buttermik plus a tiny bit more of the Country red, mostly highlight the center of the flower, or just pull in From the sides with the rake to indicate veins. Centers: Apply dots of Hauser Dk Green, using the end of a brush. Let dry and Add Hauser Lt Green and then add Lt Buttermilk to the Lt Green and ada dots using a stylus to highlight. SN Leaves: They are like an extension of the petals, apply with the same strokes as you painted the petals, behind the back row with Hauser Med Green, shade with Hauser Dk Green and add center vein. Drybrush light pink, made with Lt Buttermilk plus Country Red on the center of the petals. Highlight the top side of some of the petals with Hauser Ltae Green. using a 1/4" rake, with Hauser Dk I~~. Greenery; Pul from the outside in with a#10/0 Green,add some veiniines to the 7 Liner, loaded well with Plantation Pie. Next pull leaves. some Arbor Green ones over those, ZL orton of the itte limb. Highlight with Arbor Green plus Lt Buttermik. Holly Leaves: Sideload Into Heuser Dk Green and float the edges of the leaf. Shade at the base of the leaf and add veins, Onsome of them, using thin paint add a float under the vein. By sideloading and floating, you are leaving the background for the highlight. Tint some of the leaves with a pink, made with country| Red plus Lt Buttermilk Berries: | ike to use a circle stencil to make perfect circles ‘and to paint them quickly, Using the 174° and under stencil with Country Red plus a bit of Lt Buttermilk. Vary the sizes as you go. Then float with Brandy Wine and again with Deep Burgundy on “0 bottom of the berries and underneath the places that overlap. Highlight with Lt Buttermilk plus a bit of Country Red You can put the stencll back over the berry to keep It clean around It if youlike. Last adda dot with Lt Buttermilk “7 smashing the / dot with my << finger to soften, Mie oe 7 Green on most ( ‘ag: Paint the tag with Lt Buttermilk and shade under It with Burnt umber Palnt little holly leaves same as the others and ada dots of country Red with a Lt Buttermilk ged \ / 2k ereen. You cout el paint names on this, or you could choose to paint Happy L VE, Holidays or a ) something of - vour choice {Mee rbioog Cpu a Za cost of gazing << medium over the painted area and then eftiqued with Burnt umber. | used emall amounts and put in around, especially In the little triangle places under the petals and leaves and also some under the ribbon, Just look It over and anywhere you think you need a bit of shading, add it. The last thing | did was splatter the of the berries, in , SSS surface with Lt varying places. { Buttermilk40 FANCY SNOWMAN This snowman has a lot of texture and new products used in the making. It Is fun to paint and try the new products. You will need to work in steps and let dry, There is not a pattern for this one a6 it is not necessary, Surface: Nutcracker Snowman, Viking Noodcrafte, "186-4712, 6" Candle Holder #14-6910 used for the Base Americana Decoart Palate: Primary Blue, Primary ‘Yellow, Bright Orange, Taffy Cream, Titanium Mhite, True Red Supplies: Rich Red (BE24C) Liquid Beadz, Paper Perfect in Blue Dream, Blue Natural Fibers, Snow- Tex, StarLite Topcoat, Black Pearl In Paper Ffects, and the Snowwriter, and Small snowflake stencils Brushes: Lowe-Cornell, #20 for basecoating 4 round for larger stripes and 1 Js liner for thinner stripes. Prep: Seal the wood.| just sprayed with alight coat of Krylon #1311 Blue section: Paint bottom section, lever in back, inside the snowman around the lever with Primary Blue, Stencil snowflakes with Titanlum White on the bottom. When dry apply StarLite Topcoat for extra sparkle. On the handle there will stripes added later (paint lines going horizontal and vertically to make a plaid) when you work with the brighter colors, (This is on the handle. Not shown.) Middle section: Sweater: Apply Paper Perfect (using a small palette knife or pat on with a brush) to the middle section, the arms, and down to the hands and while wet sprinkle with Blue fibers, Head and Hande: Undercoat section with Primary Blue. Stipple Titanium White over it and when dry apply Snow-Tex using a small palette knife and working all around keeping It Fairly smooth. Let dru. Stipple or apply wash to the cheeke with thinned True Red. The nose Is painted with Bright Orange. Using Black Paper Effects, paint the eyes larger and then add the mouth with smaller dots of Black. When dry add white dots to the eyes using your stylus and a drop of Titanium White. Hat: The brim is Primary Yellow and the top section and band is Taffy Cream Paint stripes with Bright ‘orange on the top portion of the hat. Paint the large stripes first and then fill in with thin stripes. Next add thin Primary Blue stripes between the little orange stripes and a thin line down the middie of the large one, These don't have tobe perfect to look good. Add tiny little squiggly lines around to represent little fibers. Stencil snowflakes on the Primary Yellow brim. Apply Rich Red (BE34c) liquid beadz using a palette knife to the band and edge of the brim, laying them on the top edge. This takes abit of time to get themin place. If youneed to add more, you can do so after it has dried. itis easy to fill in blank spaces if youneedto. The front section (small square area on the front of the handle) is basecoated with Primary Yellow and has the beads on It also, Handle: Paint with the same colors as the top of the hat but add some across to look like plaid Fabric. Birdhouse: Paint the main part of the house with Primary Yellow and the edge of the roof. The roof and the bottom edge are painted with Bright Orange. The stovepipe io Primary Blue with the Liguid Beadz on top torepresént fire. Using the #4 round paint Blue checks on the edges. Base: The base is the 6” Candleholder. It is painted with Primary Blue and splattered with White. Then take the Snowwriter and write the letters “let It snow, let it snow, let It snow In cursive.SOURCE OF SUPPLIES Decoart www.decoart.com P.O. Box 386 Stanford, KY 40484 Acrylic Paints Loew-Cornell Brushes wwwloew-cornellcom Loew-Cornell Comfort Brushes #2,6,8,12,16 Shaders, Series 3300 Filberts Series, 3600 Rakes 1/4” and 1/2" Series 3520 Rounds #6 or 8, Series 3000 2/4" or 1” Wash Brushes, Series 3550 1/4" and 1/2"Debbie Mitchell Stipplers or 1/4" and 1/2" Deerfoot Stippiers Assorted Liners #0 and #1, Series 3250 and 3370 2ML Dome Rounds, Series 272 Viking Wooderatts, ine 1(800) 328-0116 www.vikingwooderafts.com Rusty Metal Rt Triangle 4° Container #35-97108 Rusty Metal Rt Triangle w/screen, 1° #35-4 706 Tin Tiles #35-4642 Tin Tiles #35-4643 12x12" Frames for Tiles, #20- 10546 Nutcracker Snowman * 186-4712 6" Candle Holder #14-8910 Sled ® 15-4078 Artist Clue 1(800) 845-6507 wwwartistclue.com Arched Top Calendar with Inserts #184102 Inserts #62126 Large Fancy Snowflake #62116 Painter's Paradise G-10, 450 Ridge Road Claymont, Delaware 14703-3553 (902) 148-3897 wwwpaintersparadise.com Drop Handle Basket #N 773230 (Oval Tin Lunch Pail, 11112451 Rem What Knots 2340694th Ave. Edmonds, Nashington 48020 (206) 542-1542 wwwirmwhatknots.com Large rectangular tray with Sunflowers, #550 Bill chiles 9632 Platinum Road New Bloomfield, Mo 65063 573-441-4989 26" Shelf with 3 6x7 1/2" panels Bear With Us, Inc. 3007 5, Kendall Ave. Independence Mo 64055 (816) 973-3291 BEARNUSeacicom Tassel Pieces * 1852, 1853, 1854 Multi-Ply Wood Design inc. Memory Plates 4.5 snowflake a wuwmulti-piycom yyaa SNOWFLAKE PLATE WITH POINSETTIA'S Use the same palette and same instructions as the sled. The only addition will be the pinecones. surface: Memory Plate, 4.5 Snowflake, Multi-Ply Wood Design, Inc. American DecoArt palette: Buttermilk, Lt Buttermilk, Shale Green, Country Red, Deep Burgundy, Brandy Wine, Lt Buttermilk, Hauser LE Green, Hauser Med Green, Hauser Dk Green, Arbor Green, Plantation Pine, Burnt Umber, Sable Pinecones: Base with Burnt Umber using a 1/47 angular brush and sideloading into Sable, paint the outline of the pinecone, pressing end pulling the strokes. All the petals grow to the center, similar to arose but are cylinder shape. Go back and filin the center petals, sideload and paint them in with a sideload using Sable plus Lt Buttermilk. using a liner go back and highlight the outer petals. Float with Sable on the shaded side of the pinecone and across the bottom. Next sideload and shade a bit with Burnt Umber. The background greenery that resembles pine needles is painted with Hauser Dk Green plus Lt Buttermilk pulling from the outside in using a liner Shade at the base a bit with a darker value of Hauser Dk Green plus very little Lt Buttermik. Finishing: Splatter with thinned Hauser Dk Green and when dry splatter again with Lt Buttermik.42 BIRD RETWEET Surface: Arched Top Calendar with Insert from The Artist Club, #184103 American Decoart palette: Burnt umber, Sable Brown, White, Dioxazine Purple, Black, Moon ‘Yellow, True Ochre, Pansy Lavender, Country Red, Country Blue, Hauser Lt Green, Hauser Med Green, Hauser Dk Green Loew-Cornell Brushes: #1 Script Liner, #0 Liner, 1/4" or 1/2" Stipplers, #6,8, 412 Shaders Mise. Supplies: Faux sponge. Prep: Using a good faux sponge apply the green background colors, Start with Hauser Dk Green, then pick up Hauser Med Green , and last add the highlights with Hauser Lt Green. Lock at the Picture when applying the greens so you don't cover up all the colors and apply in a way that they Will look like groups. Apply the pattern, This is a simple and fun piece to paint, Keep it loose for best results, Sketch in the limbs, birdhouses, feeder and posts with Burnt Umber, Add Sable Brown to the lighter areas, and then highlight with White. The White Birdhouse is shaded with thinned Dio Purple. The shingles are made using the side of @ flat with sable on one side and painting the edge on, Higlight the center ones with a sideload of white, tipping the edges, You may do alittle outlining with Black to finish the detalls. The sign Is White, shaded with thinned Dio Purple and lettering Is Burnt umber. STIPPLE OR SPONGE THE FLOWERS: Moon Yellow-shade with True Ochre, highlight by adding White to Moon Yellow Pansy Lavender-shade with Dio Purple, highlight ith Paney Lavender plus White Red plus Moon Yellow, shade with Country Red, highlight with Moon Yellow Country Blue-shade with Dio Purple, highlight with Blue plus White, BIRDS: Bluebirds-Country Blue, highlight with White, outline with Black, Redoirds-Country Red, highlight with White, outline with Black, Finishing: When finished go back and add a few final highlights to the greenery with Hauser Lt Green plus White, Add a Few stems with Hauser Dk Green and Hauser Lt Green plus White, Spray varnish or varnish with your choice of varnish,iva I g a \ = Cy eS 7 \ \ wt} — ~ SV 4 {set ao x if | wer & FF t A > o 4 Y S Anoka MehEAn ss44 ROBIN Surface: Putty Watering Can 1.4" w/Handle #35- 4714, Viking Woodcrafts American DecoArt palette: Yellow Ochre, Buttermilk, Raw Sienna, Burnt Umber, Raw Umber, Slate Grey, White, Country Red, Hauser Med Green, Hauser Dk Green, Hauser Lt Green, Black Plum, Sea ‘Aqua, Lt Buttermilk Loew-cornell Brushes: #1 Script Liner, #0 Liner, 1/4" or 1/2" Stipplers, #6,8, 12 Shaders, Small Reke Misc. Supplies: 7/16 Oval Template Prep: |didnot do any prep to this piece. Just apply the pattern. Robin: This Is painted In a rather loose method, same as | paint the chickens, using the chisel edge of the brush, The back of the robin is Raw Sienna plus Buttermik, Basecoat using chisel strokes. Apply Burnt Umber to the tall and the head. Chisel the 2 colors together where they meet. The wings are based with Raw Siena, shaded with Burnt Umber, and outlined with Raw Umber. The upper wing area Js painted with Burnt Umber and Raw Umber strokes applied. There are some Raw Umber strokes applied to the head area, use the Raw Umber on the edge of the fiat, set It down and lft The breast Is undercoated with Yellow Ochre and Country Red applied over it with the chisel edge of the brush leaving some of the yellow undercoating showing on the upper area and as you near the bottom paint it more solid. The little area at the bottom of the breast is undercoated with Slate Grey, and Arite painted over it using the chisel edge of a smell fiat. The white area Is shaded with thinned Black Plum shading it on the red breast also. Under the throat there are small Burnt Umber lines, Around the eye is White and the eye is basecoated with Raw Sienna. Shade across the top of the eye with Burnt Umber. Paint a Black pupil with a dot oF White for the highlight. Paint a small Black outline around the eye. There Is very thin Yellow Ochre highlighting the Black rim. The beak is Yellow Ochre, shaded with a small float next to the head and outlined with Burnt Umber and highlighted with White. Nest: Base with a mix of Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Raw Sienna, and add a bit of Buttermilk to the front center edge of the nest. Start with the darker values so when you apply the lighter strokes they will be visable, After basecoating the nest, start the branch and then go back and make all the small strokes of thenest so you can overlap the branches. After starting the branches, now start the individual little strokes to finish the nest. ‘You may use any mix of the browns and Buttermilk, and white to get a variety of colors for your nest. Keep your strokes loose and criss cross them and keep them messy but in the circular shape of the nest. Eggs: Basecoat with Sea Aqua plus a bit of Slate Grey, lused a 1/16 oval template and stippled the ‘eggs using less paint as you near the shaded area, Using the template will keep your eggs so shapely! After basecoating, pick up White in your brush and stipple the highlights on the eggs. Shade eggs with Black Plum Branch: Draw in with a flat brush using Slate Grey, Shade along the bottom with Raw Umber, shade In places on the top with Burnt Umber. Drybrush some highlights with Slate plus Buttermik or White. Use the texture of the can to your advantage to give the branch some texture. To add some roundness to the larger limbs, use a smallrake and dryprush with Raw Umber, starting at the top edge of the branch and pulling in a curve, lifting the erush as younear the bottom of the branch. Then use the rake pulling In a curve from the top with Lt Buttermilk. Leaves: Paint leaves using Hauser Dk Green, Hauser Med Green, and Hauser Lt Green. These are new leaves and are more of Hauser Lt Green, nice bright and new leaves. Finish: Spray with your Favorite varnish“WHITE CHICKEN ON RUSTY CHIME Surface: Plain Chime-Rusty Tin 71/2" T, #aa- 41725, Viking Nooderatts American Decoart palette: Slate Grey, Burnt Umber, Buttermilk, Lt Buttermilk, White, Yellow Ochre, Country Red, Deep Burgundy, Black Plum, Black Loew-cornell Brushes: #1 Script Liner, #0 Liner, 1/4" or 1/2" Stipplers, #6,8, £12 Shaders Mise. Supplies: Stencil by American Farm by Delta, Krylon Matte Spray Prep: Spray with Krylon Matte spray and apply the pattern CHICKEN: ith a #12 flat shader, brush mix Slate Grey Neutral Grey, and Burnt Umber to basecoat the chicken Using the chisel side of the brush and working in strokes. Place the darker colors where the shadows are and more Slate Grey where the chicken is lighter. For the first highlights use Slate Grey plus Buttermilk, stil brush mixing, not going too light too quickly Paint the brighter highigts with Buttermilk, then Buttermilk plus White, For the brightest go straight Into the Nhite, this time using a liner brush and only painting the brightest highlights. It’s time for glazing and tinting. Load the Glazing Medium in a flat shader, sideload into a tiny amount of Black Plum and work in out on the palette. Add this glaze to the shadow areas, under some of the Feathers, under the wing, the neck, and the feet. If you need shadows anywhere you may create them with the Black Plum glaze. The comb, wattle, and around the eye is basecoated with Country Red and shaded with Deep Burgundy, Float along the top edge with ‘Yellow Ochre. Highlight again with a small float of Lt Buttermilk, colore inst amore textured look. Feet and Beak: Base with Yellow Ochre and shade with Burnt Umber. Highlight with Lt Buttermilk. Toenalle are Black and highlighted with White. iF you prefer, tap In the ks ad of floating and blending to give \ a By. Grass: Pull grass up using Yellow Ochre. Chicken wire: Stencilusing Slate Grey, Youmay put it around as borders and at random to fill in the background. Stare: Stencil with Yellow Ochre and wash over ‘them with Burnt Umber. AY AF ar wes Ss F =z £ F< 94 = NNN ever NY & S L : < SS, eS “Ew Mlhewir |47 GIVE US THIS DAY, OUR DAILY BREAD Surface: Painters Paradise, Oval Tin Lunch Pall 911112451, 63/44 x T.5°L x 51/4" Deep American Decosrt palette: White, Buttermilk, Lt Buttermilk, Slate Grey, Black, Burnt Umber, Black Plum, Burnt Sienna, Canyon Orange, Country Red, Deep Burgundy, Antique Gold, Raw Sienna, Cad Yellow, Cad Yellow Lt, Hauser Lt Green, Hauser Med Green, Hauser Dk Green, Neutral Grey, Yellow Ochre Loew-Cernell Brushes: #1 Script Liner, #0 Liner, 1/4 or 1/2" Stipplers, #6,8, 412 Shaders Mise. Supplies: Sponge, Small Check Stencil Prep: Faint the complete container with Black, sponge with Black, Burnt Umber, and Slate Grey for a mottled look. Apply pattern Paint the rims and cup handle with Country Red Inside Tray: This is not shown in the picture and only one side of the lunch pail is visible but both sides are almost the same, the patterns Just vary abit. The bread ls based with Buttermilk plus Raw Sienna. Sponge over that with Lt Buttermilk for a textured lock. The crust ls Raw shaded with Burnt umber. Dryorush highlights with Raw Sienna plus Buttermilk. Fill in around the bread with Country Red checks, using a stencil, Lettering |e Buttermilk, shaded with Raw Sienna, WHITE CHICKENS. With a #12 flat shader, brush mix Slate Grey, Neutral Grey, and Burnt umber to basecoat the chicken using the chisel side of the brush and working in strokes. Place the darker colors where the shadows are and more Slate Grey where the chicken Is lighter. For the first highlights use Slate Grey plus Buttermilk, still brush mixing, not going too light too quickly. Paint the brighter highlights with Buttermilk, then Buttermilk plus White. For the brightest go straight into the White, this time using a liner brush and only painting the brightest highlignts. It’s time For glazing and tinting Load the Glazing Medium In a flat shader, sideload into a tiny amount of Black Plum and work in out on the palette. Add this glaze to the shadow areas, under some of the feathers, under the wing, the neck, and the feet. if you need shadows anywhere you may create them with the Black Plum glaze. The como, wattle, and around the eye is basecoated wlth Country Red and shaded with Deep Burgundy. Float along the top edge with Yellow Ochre. Highlight again with a small float of Lt Buttermik, if you prefer, tap in the colors netead of floating and blending to give a more textured look. Feet and Beak: Base with Yellow Ochre and shade with Burnt umber.42 Highlight with Lt Buttermilk. Toenails are Black and highlighted with white Grass: Pull grass up using Yellow Ochre and Antique Gold. DIRECTIONS FOR VEGETABLES: (There are more instructions in Chicken Pot Pie) Stippie Hauser Med Green behing the vegetables. ‘The carrots are Antique Sold, shaded with Canyon Orange across the top and bottom and highlighted with Canyon Orange plus Lt Buttermilk. ‘The potatoes are Country Red plus Raw Sienna Shade around the potatoes with Burnt Umber and ‘ryorush highlights with Lt, Buttermilk The onions are painted with Lt Buttermilk on the bottom portion and Hauser Med Green onthe tops, and blending the two colors together in the center area. Float Med Green for the shading on the white portion and drybrush White on the center area. The tops are shaded with Hauser Dk Green and highlighted with Hauser Lt Green ‘The wheat is painted with Raw Sienna and Antique Gold plus a little Buttermilk and painted with little strokes, setting the brush down and pulling and lifting and adding emall ines coming from the ends, They are shaded with Burnt Sienna and highlighted with Le Buttermilk Lettering: Flaten a #1 Liner for painting the lettering with Yellow Ochre. Finishing: Spray with Krylon Matte or finish with your favorite varnish Pattern for Give Us This Day, ‘Our Dally Breed continued49 SUNFLOWER BASKET Surface: Drop Handle Basket from Painter's Paradise #4173230 American Decoart palette: Country Red, Moon Yellow, Marigold, True Ochre, Honey Brown, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Bittersweet Chocolate, Deep Teal, Hauser Lt Green, Hauser Med Green, Hauser Dark Green, Black Green, Lt. Avocado, Lt Buttermilk, Black, Texture Paste Loew-Cornell Brushes: #1 Script Liner, #O Liner, 1/4" or 1/2" Stipplers, #6, 8, #12 Shaders, palette knife Prep: Paint lid with Country Red. Put texture paste ‘on with a palette knife, leaving it rough, appiying in a slip slap way, and let dry. cover most of the red but leave some around the edges. Paint with Lt Avocado leaving a bit of the red showing and last antique with Black Green by mixing it with Staining and Antiquing Medium, apply and wipe excess off with rag leaving the dark in all the crevices made by the texture paste, Let dry well and apply the pattern, centers: Stipple centers with Burnt Umber and shade bypicking up Bittersweet Chocolate and stippling the center and around the bottom Highlight oy mixing Burnt Umber and picking up Marigold and stippii then add lighter highlights ey adding Moon Yellow. Petals: First paint the back row of petals with True (Ochre, using a 1/2" shader or angular brush with as stroke. If you need to fil in the petal, lap another stoke by It to form apetal. The next row is Marigold and the last row or top row Is Moon Yellow. As you apply each row you will go lighter with the color but do not cover all the back petals, letting them overlap. Add Lt Buttermilk to some of the lightest petals, keeping it more to the center of the lid Leaves and stems: The leaves are made by applying Hauser Med Green and drybrushing over the background and picking out leaves by looking at the texture. Pick cut areas that look like leaves, letting some of them Fade into the background. Let the background work for you. Add highlignts with Hauser Lt Green and a little of Hauser Lt Green plus Moon Yellow or Lt Buttermilk. You should have the dark antiquing that you did on the prep for your shading, but can add more If you need to. Write Flowers (Yarrow): Using a #4 round brush, paint in little petals using Lt Buttermilk, not to definite. Add dots of Marigold and even lesser smaller dots of Hauser Dk Green, Shade with thinned Hauser Dk Green on the underneath side.Re aWvomG 4 SW ae ee ee Lae es oh SI ais ve os pn Je aS. Cn ya "“ xeDIFFERENT TECHNIQUES General Information for painting chickens: Refer to picture for strokes and colors. Keep the pattern and picture close by while you paint. The main Idea Is to paint the feathers in the direction that they lay, using the chisel side of the brush Also lay In the darks first and gradually add the lighter strokes. Dor't jump the values to quickly, Place the darker colors where the shadows or dark feathers are and go lighter for the lighter areas. Brush mixing will Keep the feathers soft locking, working In a casual manner, overlapping ‘some of the Feathers and brushingin the directions the feathers grow. Load the brush, press down and lift a8 you pull the feathers on, using longer strokes for the longer feathers like the tall and short stubby strokes for the shorter feathers. |.use @ #12 flat for most of the chicken, using the chisel side for the long stokes in the tail and wing and neck feathers. Sideload the #12 and use a zigzag stroke for the short feathers, You may try e filbert brush for the shorter feathers, put brush down and lift to put more paint on the tips of the feathers. Refer to photos. Paint the small chicks with emaller size stipplers and paint from dark to light. This makes them look soft and fluffy, Sometimes the colors will vary depending on the palette that | am using, Drybrush: Putting the paint in your brush and removing some of the paint by blotting and brushing on the palette until it is almost dry, leaving ‘only a small amount of paint in your brush: Always use @ dry brush The brush may be any size, depending on the size of the area that you are working on. | like to start with the base color and gradually adding the lighter color and applying, keep adding the lighter color until you bulld to the final highlight. As you are applying the paint, each time you go lighter, also paint a smaller area, to build the shape. Apply the paint with a light touch if you use more paint, if you are using a dryer brush, you may need to brush harder, Practice until you develop the method that suits you the best. You will get a feel for which works the best for you. Sideloading: Use the largest fiat or angular brush that you can fit into the area, Dip the brush into water, pat it on a paper towel, dip one corner into the color and blend It on a wax palette until the paint Ie blended acrose the brush, with one side having the most color and one side being free of Wet in Wet: Blending quickly while the paint is still wet, using short choppy strokes. If you paint slowly, you may use the Brush 'n Blend (extender, which allows the paint to dry slower). Glazing: Using Faux Glazing Medium or plain water and sideloading a small amount of paint, onecan add a transparent coat of paint for additional depth in shading. Sometimes one may use 8 transparent coat for changing the color, not using a sideload, but more of a wash or tint. Tinting: Adding a small amount of color to an area, This can be done with the glazing medium or water, It adds interest to your work. Double load: Sideload each side of the brush with a different color and work back and forth on the palette until the colors are blended, then apply This will make your floats very soft. Brush mixing: Picking up different colors with the brush and blending in your brush by mixing it on the palette. Back to back float: Float the color where you pant the strongest color, flip the brush and float the color down the other side. The center will be the strongest highlight, \ i*WEATHERVANE SHELF Surface: Bill Chiles, 26"Shelf with 2 panels. Inside Panels are app. 61/4 x 1/1/4" American Decoart palette: Arbor Green, Country Red, Country Blue, White, Lt Buttermilk, Black, Orange, Moon Yellow, Antique Gold, Black, Burnt umber, Loew-cernell Brushes: #1 Script Liner, #O Liner, 1/4" or 1/2" Stipplers, #6,8, 412 Shaders Misc. Supplies: Weathered Wood. Prep: Basecoat the inside panels with Country Blue, Paint the green area around the panels with Lt Buttermilk, dry and apply Neathered Nood and when dry apply Arbor Green over that area. The top shelf and edges of the back piece are painted Country Red with Antique Gold dryorushed over It sparingly. The brackets that support the shelf are painted with a mix of Antique Gold and Moon Yellow with some of this dryrushed on the front edge that has been painted Country Red. Inside each panel (the small edging) is painted with the Gold mix and Country Red drybrushed over this, hitting mostly on the edges, Clouds: Paint using a sideload of White in a loose manner, placing some clouds behind the weathervanes and starting them, you may go back later and add more to them if needed. using a dryprush and adding more to the puffs and as the brush gets dryer rubbing over some of the background, It is a good idea to work on each one of the weathervanes and then go back and add to each one after looking and comparing them to each other. Judge If you need more light or dark areas, Until you get a nice balance, You may add to the clouds as well as the weathervanes. Weathervane on left side: Basecoat with weathervane with Country Red. Leave the comb, wattle, and arrow portion a darker red, highlighting with Antique Gold. Dryorush rooster first with Antique Gold and a bit of Arbor Green on the darker areas. Bulld the highlights with Moon Yellow and then Lt Buttermilk, dryorushing on the lighter areas. The lighter areas are the center of the neck, the body portion of the chicken and the top of the large tall feathers. This doesn't have to be exact, Just work on it until it looks good to you. Eye Is Black with White dot. The beak Is Moon Yellow, shaded with Burnt Umber. Center weathervene: Basecoat the rooster with Lt Buttermilk and the bottom pole is painted Black with White highlights dryrushed on. The sections of the rooster are joined with rivets and need to be shaded under the neck, the tail, and the wing portion with Burnt umber. Add shading to the bottom of the rooster down the pole area. Paint the comb, wattle and a few feathers with Country Red Adda few feathers with Arbor Green, Antique Gold, and Orange (any orange will do). Paint the rivets and the eyes using Black dete, Add a White highlight to the eye. The beak is Moon ‘Yellow, shaded with Burnt Umber.Weathervane on Right: Basecoat with Lt Buttermilk, even under the red to make It brighter. Paint the red areas with Country Red, add the red stripes, comb, and wattle, Shade with Burnt Umber, even on the red areas, The beak Is Moon Yellow, shaded with Burnt Umber. Eye Is Black with Nhite dot. The arrow and the bottom portion is basecoated with moon Yellow, shaded with Antique Gold, then Burnt Umber ana Highlighted with Lt Buttermilk. The center pole ie darker, more Burnt umber shading and outlined with Black. Finishing: Look it over carefully and when you are satisfled, you are ready to varnish, LTT LLLCHICKEN TRIANGLE CONTAINER This ie a very simple little piece to paint, so cute and it will fit into any corner, Surface; 35-4106 Rt Triangle w/screen, 1” Tall, Viking Nooderafts, Inc, American Decoart palette: Country Red, White, Black, Marigold, Raw Sienna, and Yellow Ochre Loew-Cornell Brushes: #1 Script Liner, #0 Liner, 1/4" or 1/2" Stipplers, #8 412 Shaders Mise. Supplies: EZ Dotz (or you may use the end of your brushes to make dots) a S P< 3 8 LLL a \ sts SLL \ veal y X & S 4 gf yl ge § tga, § PR ray oe fe SMF Prep: No prep. Put a copy of the pattern under the screen. Paint the chicken White, Just brushing across the screen with the brush. Do this 2 times. The head is Country Red, the eye Black, the beak and the tail are Marigold. The straw under the chicken Is Raw Sienna, Marigold and Yellow Ochre. ‘The flowers on the border are made with an EZ Dotz,a stylus or the end of your brush. The center dot is Yellow Ochre and there are 5 Country Red dots around the center one, Paint a thin line between the flowers with Yellow Ochre and add 2 little cross lines. That's alll MN . J a WN? SY SCA AA AD = Ss10 SUNFLOWER CANISTERS Surface: These were an old set of aluminum canisters, They can be found at tag sales, garage sales, or antique stores usually for under $50. You may find new canisters to use also. | think square ones would work also and you could Just wrap the sunflowers around the corners, The patterns can be adjusted and you can fill in the back of the canisters with sunflowers. If you need a pattern, Just trace off some of the flowers or cut them from the patterns and fill In with them, American Decoart palette: Country Red, Moon Yellow, Marigold, True Ochre, Honey Brown, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Bittersweet Chocolate, Deep Teal, Hauser Lt Green, Hauser Med Green, Hauser Dark Green, Lt Buttermilk, Buttermilk, Black, ‘Yellow Light Leew-cornell Brushes: #1 Script Liner, #0 Liner, 1/4" or 1/2" Stipplers, #6,8, 412 Shaders Mise. Supplies: You could use a stencil if you prefer for the sunflowers, Small sponges. Pattern for ‘Sunflowers Canisters (Tea Canister) Se, Nz \ pan Prep: If using the metal canisters, sand and prime with metal primer and basecoat with Country Red Let cure or dry well. You can speed this process up by putting It in the oven cna low temperature. It Is not necessary to draw on all the petals on the flowers. If youneed to, you could draw a line down the middle s0 you would know the direction to place them. They look more natural if you can paint them with a stroke. Sponge lightly with True Ochre all over the canister but more around where the chicken will be and keeping the rest very feint. FLOWERS: Centers are stippled in using a small stippler and you don't have to clean the brush between the colors, You will start with the darker colors and as you go lighter, remember to paint a smaller area, not covering all of the darker color, Sunflowers have Burnt Umber centers stippled, then pick up Burnt Sienna, then Honey Brown, working in the lighter areas around the dark center, then pick up a touch of True Ochre, then maybe even a tish of Marigold or Moon. Shade with Bittersweet choc, Petals: Use a #10 flat shader to form the petals with one stroke. Back petals are True Ochre painting around the center leaving some space ( =3 Sawoen McLean if