Thyme for a ROLY POLY SANTA

Are you 

READY 

for

Santa?

I am still 

VERY BUSY 

in my 

STUDIO

I was gifted this large gourd by a friend
It came to me "paint ready" so I had no prepping or cleaning to do first!

I decided to paint a 

Lynne Andrews design 

on it called

ROLY POLY SANTA

My pallette for this project

DecoArt Americana

Antique Gold, Buttermilk, Flesh Tone, Burnt Umber, Country Red, Hauser Medium Grenn, Plantation Pine, Titanium Snow White, Lamp Black

Speciality Paints

DecoArt Dazzling Metallics Emperor's Gold, DecoArt Glamour Dust, Americana Sealer Dura Clear Matte Varnish

I used graphite paper to transfer my design to the gourd surface.

Transferring your design to a round surface can be a little tricky.

You may have to make some adjustments as you go along.

We are now ready to paint!

I first basecoated 2 coats 

Antique Gold 

drying well between each coat.

I then began the 

face details, beard and wreath on Santa's hat.

I used 

DecoArt Dazzling Metallics Emperor's Gold

to add to the holly wreath on Santa's hat

The pattern directions called for the mittens to be 

PLAID

  They were painted with a wash technique.

I then began painting the twig christmas tree and candy cane.

At this point I began to think that the mittens 

stood out a little more than I wanted them to

but I continued with the rest of the design.

I started working on the FUR on the cuffs of Santa's coat.

Lynne Andrew's often adds a checkerboard pattern to many of her designs

You can use a Koh-i-noor Radiograph pen size 00/.30 for this or a good quality permanent marker (medium point) or you can also use your liner brush and Lamp Black paint.

I painted the Lamp Black checkerboard design on my Santa with a tiny liner brush.

As I continued to paint the Santa I still was still not sure about the mittens as I felt the plaid competed 

with the candy cane and the black checkerboard design on sleeve.

  

I even changed the color of the plaid!

Working on the sleeves of the coat

Painting the fur on the bottom of Santa's coat.

I used

DecoArt Glamour Dust Ice Crystal 

to add some sparkle to the fur 

on the

cuffs and bottom of coat.

I finally decided to paint the mittens a 

SOLID color 

and 

just add a snowflake to them

I painted the mittens using Antique Gold to match Santa's jacket.

I liked them a LOT better!

I sealed my Santa with several coats of 

DecoArt Dura Clear Matte Varnish

I added some buttons to the botton of his coat

This was a fun design to paint. 

You can find Lynne Andrews wonderful patterns 

HERE

DecoArt provided me with the paints to complete this project as part of thier

Helping Artist Program

and

Blogger Outreach Program

Thank you DecoArt for giving me the opportunity to try your wonderful products in my paintings!

You can read my 

DecoArt Blogger Profile 

HERE

I hope you have enjoyed watching me paint

ROLY POLY SANTA!

Keep those brushes flying!
Happy Painting!
Lynn


"Each day is a new canvas to paint upon.
Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness,
and
at the end of the day you don't look at it
and
wish you had painted something different."
 ~Author Unknown