Tuesday, December 19, 2017

It's thyme to show you a Star Light Santa


There are only 6 days until Christmas!!





Are you ready?



I'm still wrapping......with the "help" of my STUDIO assistants......HINKLEY and Oreo!


I'm still baking!


AND I'm still painting some ornaments!

Today I wanted to show you some Santa ornaments that Im working on.

This project is called
Stat Light Santa
Design by
Roxanne Puchalski MDA

I converted the colors
 for this project 
to 


Uniform Blue, Shading Flesh, Fleshtone, Country Red, Warm White, Lamp Black, Charcoal Gray , Neutral Gray, Black Plum, Traditional Burnt Umber, Honey Brown





Let's Paint


I mixed 
Multi Purpose Sealer
with my initial base coat color which
 was 
Uniform Blue


When dry I painted a second coat of just Uniform Blue.



When my surfaces were dry I transferred the design with graphite paper.
I painted Santa's hat with 2 coats of Country Red.
When base coating with RED I usually first paint a base of Gray. 
I used Neutral Gray.
I painted the face with Fleshtone.


I shaded the cheeks and defined the nose and eye area next.
I then painted the eyes.


I defined the curls in the beard using a mix of Lamp Black, Neutral Gray and Charcoal Gray.


I left some of the blue background showing through the beard.


I used my Texture-It brush to stipple on the fur with Warm White.


I added some shading to the fur first with Honey Brown
I deepened it with a little Traditional Burnt Umber.
I then used my Silver Micron Mini detail brush to pull additional fur on the hat and pompom with Warm White.

I used my detail brush to also do the beard with Warm White.

I also pulled some hairs up onto the hat with Neutral Gray



I brushed some Glamour Dust Ice Crystal on the hat fur.


I added some tiny stars to the background with Warm White.



I shaded along the fur line on the hat with Black Plum.
I highlighted the hat with a wash of Hot Shots Fiery Red.




I found some large wood ornament shapes.


I painted the FRONT of the ornament shapes 
with 


I painted the BACKS of the ornaments first with Uniform Blue.

I used a stencil for the backs of the ornaments.
I used a very dry stencil brush loaded
 with
to do the lettering and design.

I "dusted" the Shimmering Silver on using the stencil.



I then added 
some
Silver DecoArt Twinkles 
to the stencil design and all around the outside edges of the ornament.



I used Wood Glue to put the ornaments together

After everything was dry I sprayed the ornaments with several coats 
of 








Rosemary Reynolds and DecoArt
provided me with the paints and products 
to complete this project as part of their 

Helping Artist Program
and
Blogger Outreach Program


Thank you DecoArt!





I hope you have enjoyed watching me paint
Star Light Santa


Happy Painting !

Lynn








2 comments:

Keep those brushes flying!
Lynn Barbadora @ Painting Thyme Needfuls

"Life is a great BIG canvas and you should throw all the paint you can on it!"
~ Danny Kaye

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