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Hand Painted Gourds Make whimsical santa or snowman.
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DecoArt Products Required
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Americana Acrylics |
Dazzling Metallics SoSoft Metallics Americana Spray Sealers |
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Instructions
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Preparation Santa Gourd - Basecoat as follows: Pear: Deep Burgundy; Face: Warm Neutral; palette and brush hairs: Raw Sienna; gloves: Holly Green; vest: Black Forest Green; hair, beard, moustache, and eyebrows: Slate Grey; brush handles: Black. Painting Instructions: 1. Transfer patterns. NOTE: pattern should be enlarged or reduced to fit gourd. 2. Use liner brush and thinned Burnt Sienna to outline facial features, shade face, and form cheeks. 3. With Uniform Blue, sideload #4 flat to form iris of eyes with "c" strokes. Turn sideways with points facing inward to form the halves of the iris. 4. Use Black for the pupil and for shading vest. 5. For inside mouth and shade on coat, use Black Plum. 6. Use Charcoal Grey to shade face. 7. Use Blush Flesh to deepen shadows on cheeks, sides and bottom of nose, and top and bottom of lip. 8. Highlight eyes and palette with White. 9. Use Hi-Lite Flesh to highlight cheeks and eyelids. "Pitty-Pat" upper cheeks; lightly tap with finger to soften. 10. Use thinned Black to underline eyelids, pull out lashes, and add to palette. 11. Shade hair, and under moustache with Payne's Grey. 12. Highlight coat with Cadmium Orange. 13. Shade gloves with Black Forest Green. 14. Sideload #4 flat with Holly Green to highlight vest, paint brush, and palette. 15. Use thinned Dark Chocolate and liner brush to shade palette and create brush hairs. 16. Use liner and Glorious Gold to paint stripes on vest and trim on coat's bottom. 17. Use rake brush and White to paint hair, beard and eyebrows. Dab some on palette. 18. Base holly with Black Forest Green. Highlights are Holly Green. Use liner and thinned Holly Green to paint veins. 19. Use Cadmium Red to dot berries; add some to palette. Shade berries with Deep Burgundy, highlight tops with Cadmium Orange. 20. Use Glorious Gold Fabric paint to highlight holly and berries. Thin paint and use liner to paint "curly cues". 21. Highlight beard, hair, and eyebrows with White. Preparation Snowman Gourd 1. Tape hat brim on felt and cut out. Place it on a slick surface and paint both sides Black. Remove from surface before completely dry - prevents sticking. Paint a strip for top of hat. 2. Form nose from Orange Fimo clay. Roll a small cylinder, taper one end to a point, make creases with thumbnail to create the appearance of a carrot. You may apply some antiquing to it for a more authentic look. Let dry, or dry in an oven. Painting Instructions: 1. Basecoat entire piece with Uniform Blue. 2. With moist sea sponge, lightly apply White with a twisting motion - do not cover all of basecoat. 3. Transfer pattern for face, vest, gloves, and arms. 4. Base vest Black Forest Green, face White, and gloves Sable Brown. 5. Transfer detail pattern for vest. 6. Draw vertical and horizontal lines on vest with a chalk pencil. 7. Transfer pattern for face, arms, broom, and sign. 8. With liner brush and thinned Black, paint outlines of eyes, mouth and coal. Fill in iris of eyes and pull out eyelashes. Paint hat top on gourd. 9. Sideload brush with Uniform Blue to shade eyes, head, arms, and area next to vest. 10. Paint star highlight on eye with liner brush and thinned White. 11. Brush mix Blush Flesh and White, tap off excess on paper towel, and stipple on cheeks - for smoother look, use a circular motion. 12. Paint red stripes on vest with liner brush and thinned Santa Red. Paint gold stripes with thinned Glorious Gold. 13. With Raw Sienna, base broom stick and sign pole. 14. Use liner and Golden Straw to base broom straws. 15. Base sign with Light Buttermilk. 16. Sideload brush with Dark Chocolate to shade broom stick, sign pole, sign, gloves, and broom straws. 17. Sideload and shade vest Black Forest Green. Sideload and highlight vest with Dark Pine. 18. Use liner brush and thinned Santa Red for sign. Use stylus to apply dots on letters. 19. Use stylus and Glorious Gold to dot buttons. 20. Glue on hat brim, ribbon, holly, bird, and nose (refer to photo for placement). 21. Finish with Matte Spray. LP26 |
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