Color Step by Step REINDEER GAMES
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Color Step by Step REINDEER GAMES
Ornaments Acrylic Color Step by Step REINDEER GAMES SUZIE SNOWFLAKE SNOW SANTA The Decorative Painter Issue No. 6, 2006 31 REINDEER GAMES SUZIE SNOWFLAKE Reduce or enlarge the designs to fit your gourds. SNOW SANTA Ornaments tom near the chalk line and cut out the bottom of the gourd. Remove all the seeds and fibers and scrape the inside. Fill any holes with wood filler. Mark the center front and sides of the gourd using the chalk pencil. This will make it easier for the placement of the arms. SCULPTING ■ Arms with Mittens: Roll two logs of clay to the desired length. Press on the top and smooth for the shoulder. Mark the fold lines at the elbow, wrist and thumbs using the needle tool. Press the bottom of the sleeve and make it larger. Roll a small snake of clay and wrap at the wrist for the fur on the robe. ■ Robe: Roll a ball of clay and flatten with your fingers. Wrap this over the top of the gourd and press in place over the shoulders to form the hood. Press the folds with the needle tool. Insert the screw eye at the back before the clay cures. Press the needle tool along the edge to form a small fur trim on the hood. Roll a long, thick snake of clay and press in place around the bottom (cut area) of the gourd to form the bottom fur trim. ■ Boots: Roll clay into a log the desired length. Bend the bottom to form the boot. Use the needle tool to mark the sole. Punch a hole through the top of each boot (side to side). ■ Tree: Roll a snake of clay for the tree trunk. Press one end as you roll the snake to make a long thin cone shape and place in position in the right arm. Allow the tree trunk to cure before you continue. Roll a ball of clay and flatten into a circle with your fingers. Pull up the center of the circle and drape it over the tree trunk. It will form folds as you drape into place. Press over the back of the arm. BASECOAT Flesh Tone: face Graphite: beard and mustache Buttermilk: robe Payne’s Grey: fur Burnt Sienna wash: tree trunk Antique Teal: tree Splendid Gold: boots and mittens LET’S PAINT ■ Face: Sketch the facial features with thinned Burnt Sienna. Shade the face using Burnt Sienna. Paint the eye area Light Buttermilk. Paint the pupils Lamp Black with Titanium White highlights. Line the top of the eye and pull tiny lashes with Lamp Black. Paint the cheek color in layers. The first color is Antique Rose. Float from the beard up as you walk toward the eyes. Float Napa Red in a smaller area with the final layer a brush-mix of Napa Red+touch of Payne’s Grey in the darkest areas. Add touches of these same colors to the lips and end of the nose. Highlight the face with a brush-mix of Flesh Tone+touch of Light Buttermilk. ■ Robe: Using Winter Blue and the largest angle brush, float the shading on the robe. Step down to the next smaller brush and float the next shading of French Grey/Blue. The final shading is Payne’s Grey. Drybrush the highlight to the robe with the dome round brush. Start with Light Buttermilk and then pick up touches of Titanium White. Add final highlights with Cool White. ■ Boots and Mittens: Shade both with Payne’s Grey. ■ Tree: Shade the tree with a wash of Black Green. Blot any excess with a paper towel. Dry-brush the highlights with a brush-mix of Antique Teal+touch of Buttermilk. Add detail dots randomly with Cool White. ■ Beard, Mustache and Hair: Use the filbert rake brush to paint the beard in layers. Brush-mix Graphite+ Buttermilk and thin slightly with water. Stroke the hair, leaving some of the basecoat showing. Build the high- Acrylic lights by adding Buttermilk, Light Buttermilk and finally Titanium White. ■ Fur: Stipple Splendid Gold over the fur trim on the robe. DETAILS Dry-brush touches of Splendid Gold on the tree and add randomly to the robe. FINISHING Drill a hole in the back of the gourd, below the folds of the hood. Cut a piece of jewelry wire about 14 inches long and thread through this hole. Curl the top end of the wire so it won’t slip through the hole. Wire the boots to the other end of the wire, twisting the wire to secure them. Pull the wire back inside the gourd until the boots are hanging just below the bottom edge of the gourd. Cut any excess wire at the top, curl the end and add a dab of glue to secure. Tie the thread for a hanger. Spray with matte varnish to seal. y Artist’s Sketch Dottie Kuhl began decorative painting in 1990 and started doing her own woodworking, which led to the business name Kuhl Kuts. In 1997 she published her first painting packets. Since then she has published two books and a number of packets. In 2002 Dottie started adding sculpting to gourds to give a dimension effect and has been creating dimensional gourds since then. She has taught locally at chapter meetings and library functions, and she has exhibited her designs at HOOT and the 2006 SDP Conference in Nashville. You may contact Dottie at 42 Riverdale Estates, Winfield, WV 25213, call (304) 586-2424 or e-mail [email protected]. Visit her website at www.kuhlkuts.com. The Decorative Painter Issue No. 6, 2006 33 Special Delivery Project | intermediate Acrylic S anta’s helper opts for alternative transporation to deliver Christmas gifts. Prudy Vannier CDA his design appeals to the “international child” in all of us. This is a good illustration of how gifts are actually delivered all over the world on Christmas night! Like the simple cookie recipe we’ve seen on ads, this piece is easily painted but looks involved…which is exactly what I love to do! T SURFACE The 12-inch square tray is available from Doug Malaznik, 14215 Westmore St., Livonia, MI 481544149, (734) 422-6466, dmalaznik@ twmi.rr.com. Check your local stores for comparable or adaptable surfaces. Reduce or enlarge the design if needed. PALETTE DECOART AMERICANA ACRYLICS Bahama Blue (TCS BG-4-2-4) Bleached Sand (TCS WH-6-3-2) Blue Green (TCS BG-4-1-8) Boysenberry Pink (TCS RV-1-2-5) Dark Pine (TCS GR-3-3-6) Deep Midnight Blue (TCS BL-5-2-8) Dioxazine Purple (TCS VI-5-1-7) Driftwood (TCS BK-3-7-4) Indian Turquoise (TCS BG-3-4-3) Lamp Black (TCS BK-5-1-9) Medium Flesh (TCS OR-6-3-5) Neutral Grey (TCS BK-5-5-5) Payne’s Grey (TCS BL-5-2-9) Red Violet (TCS RV-2-2-8) Silver Sage Green (TCS BG-8-8-3) Tangerine (TCS YO-5-1-4) Terra Cotta (TCS BR-1-2-7) Titanium White (TCS WH-5-1-1) DECOART HOT SHOTS Sizzling Pink SUPPLIES Fine-grit sandpaper Spattering tool or old toothbrush Stylus Tracing paper Transfer paper Water-based varnish or polyurethane Wood sealer photos/Steve Gerig Midnight Blue, Dioxazine Purple and Payne’s Grey on the palette. Use the 3 ⁄4-inch flat to fill in Earth, starting at the top left (11 o’clock) and working to the bottom corner (5 o’clock). Blend the lighter colors at the top. Add the darker colors as you work down so that Payne’s Grey and Dioxazine Purple are predominate in the lower corner. Transfer or sketch the land masses. Place Titanium White, Titanium White+Silver Sage Green, Silver Sage Green, Dark Pine and Blue Green on the palette. Use the 1⁄2-inch angular, slip-slap the colors in to the land masses, keeping the colors lightest by the moon and darkest at the bottom. BRUSHES 1 ⁄4- and 1⁄2-inch angulars (Prudy’s Best Floater) 3 ⁄16-inch texture brush (Prudy’s Best Pouncer) No. 1 liner (Prudy’s Best Liner) 3 ⁄4-inch flat PREPARATION Sand and seal. Place puddles of Payne’s Grey, Lamp Black, Blue Green and Titanium White on the palette. Use the 3⁄4-inch flat brush to slip-slap these colors over the entire piece, including the sides. Let dry. Trace and transfer the basic design shapes. LET’S PAINT MOON Basecoat the moon with Silver Sage Green. Lightly transfer the face design. Mix Tangerine+Titanium White (1:1) (you’ll use this color several times, so make quite a bit). Using the 1⁄2-inch angular, float the mix in 36 The Decorative Painter the center of the forehead, across the brow lines, down the nose, over the nostrils, in the cleft under the nose and over the cheeks. Fill the eyes with Titanium White. Use the 1⁄4-inch angular to float Titanium White on the lips, edge of the eyelids, top and end of the nose and the edge of the moon at the 8 o’clock position. Fill the eyes and mouth with Neutral Grey. Use the liner to line the features. Sometimes, particularly in a whimsical, cartoon-style design such as this one, I gently emphasize some shading and highlighting by lining diagonally with the shade and highlight colors. I did this on the moon with Neutral Grey and the Tangerine mix. Float Payne’s Grey over the back of the moon. EARTH Place puddles of Indian Turquoise, Silver Sage Green, Blue Green, Deep Issue No. 6, 2006 GOOSE Basecoat the body and wings with Bleached Sand and the beak with the Tangerine mix. Float Titanium White across the tip of the head and neck, the back, the breast, front of the wing and tips of the wing and tail feathers. Float Driftwood across the bottom of the neck, around the wing, under the elf and to separate the tail and wing feathers. Float Deep Midnight Blue around the wing to deepen the shading, and then go over it lightly with Red Violet floats to tint. Use the 1⁄4-inch angular to float Cstroke feathers down the neck, top of the wing and over the breast with Titanium White. Use the chisel edge of this brush to paint straight stripes over the individual wing and tail feathers. Float Boysenberry Pink to form a cheek. Deepen the front edge of it and tint the bottom of the beak with floats of Red Violet. The eye, smile line and nostril are Lamp Black. Highlight the eye with a dot and dash of Titanium White. Project | intermediate Acrylic Color Step by Step MOON Basecoat. Float yellow areas. Add facial details. Add shadows. GOOSE Basecoat. Add shading and tints. Add details. ELF Add shading and tints. Basecoat. Add details. The Decorative Painter Issue No. 6, 2006 37 TRAY SIDES Project | intermediate SANTA ELF AND BAG Make sure your tracing is accurate on the Santa elf and bag. Basecoat as follows: Medium Flesh: face Titanium White: leg, tops of gifts Red Violet: hat, coat Driftwood: beard, mustache, fronts of gifts Neutral Grey: boot, sides of gifts Dark Pine: bag, mittens, stocking stripes Tangerine mix: rein Design shown at actual size. Use the 1⁄4-inch angular to float Terra Cotta on the face next to the fur area. Float Boysenberry Pink to form the cheek and redden the end of the nose. Use the liner to paint the eyebrows and highlights on the nose and cheek with tiny strokes of Titanium White. The eye is a tiny vertical stroke of Lamp Black. Float Dioxazine Purple on the hat next to the fur area. Also float this around the sleeve, in the coat area under the flowing beard and lightly across the back of the sleeve. Highlight along the top of the hat, top of the back and front of the sleeve with Sizzling Pink. Shade the mittens at the wrist with Payne’s Grey. Use this to shade the bag to form a cuff and across the bottom. Highlight the fronts of the mittens and the bag with Silver Sage Green. Pounce Payne’s Grey in to the fur areas using a dry texture brush. Sideload with Titanium White and pounce in to the wet basecoat. Use the liner and slightly thinned Red Violet to paint ribbons on the gifts and to line the rein. FAIRY DUST Experiment with the texture brush. Using it wet or dry creates entirely different effects. The wet makes soft swirls. I started with a wet brush and used predominately Acrylic Bahama Blue, then Titanium White, then Red Violet. Using a dry texture brush so that the strokes are more pronounced, add Bahama Blue and the Tangerine mix. Use a stylus with Titanium White to accentuate with dots. FINISHING Float the Tangerine mix across the top of Earth, the goose’s head and neck, the front of the wings and the wing feathers. Spatter the sky with Titanium White for distant stars and add Titanium White stylus dots for bright stars. Finish a piece on the sides or back with elements of the design for an overall spectacular piece of decorative art. On this particular piece, the sides are a continuation of the background sky but on one side I added the swirls of fairy dust, on another the head of the goose and on a third side, falling gifts. Varnish with your favorite waterbased varnish or polyurethane. y Artist’s Sketch Prudy Vannier CDA owns and operates Prudy’s Studio Inc., a publishing company for decorative art books that specialize in acrylic painting. Besides enjoying her family and hobbies, she is the past president of SDP. Prudy’s style of acrylic painting is fun, whimsical and lighthearted. It reflects her sense of humor and her love of this art form. Her simple techniques can be applied to any subject or surface and are taught by her nationally and internationally. For a brochure of books and other merchandise from Prudy, send a SASE to Prudy’s Studio Inc., 279 Maplewood St., Northville, MI 48167-1149 or visit www.prudysstudio.com. The Decorative Painter Issue No. 6, 2006 39 Project | intermediate Acrylic Quick & Easy It’s often fun to use objects in a design as separate projects. Cut the moon or the goose and Santa elf out of wood, watercolor paper or cardboard and paint as directed in the project. Enlarge or reduce the design if necessary, and simplify the design somewhat for easy, fast projects and gifts. —P.V.