Thyme to show you Tranquil Times Portside Clock

Today

 I wanted to show you a project 

called

Tranquil Times

Portside Clock

Design

 by

Rebecca Trimble

Lets step inside the STUDIO!

My Palette

DecoArt Americana Acrylics

Antique Green, Antique White, Asphaltum, Avocado, Black Green, Black Plum, Blue Chiffon, Burnt Sienna, Cadmium Yellow, Camel, Cocoa, Driftwood, French Vanilla, Gingerbread, Hauser Medium Green, Light Buttermilk. Neutral Grey, Plantation Pine, Raw Sienna, Rookwood Red, Snow ( Titanium) White, Soft Black, Soft Sage, Williamsburg Blue.

The surface I used is a thick MDF.
The surface is bevel cut so it is actually 2 pieces.

I had my good friend
  Sheila Landry 
specially cut the surface for this clock.

You can purchase the surface

HERE

The pattern 
for this project can be found
in the
August 2010
 Issue of Quick and Easy Painting

I began by first establishing the horizon lines

by base coating in 

the 

sky and water.

I like to use Ultra Rounds for both base coating and shading.

I build the value by adding several washes of color.

I mop in between each wash.

*** I use separate brushes for my base coating and floating. ***

This insures that the brushes you use to float with maintains a perfect chisel edge!

I keep a separate small bowl of CLEAN water that I use for floating.

If you use the same water that you clean your brushes in to float you you will have a muddy float!

I used a wash of Williamsburg Blue for the water.

I used streaky, short and choppy strokes.

I let the area dry completely.

Next I added the the hills in the background then the hills in the water.

I use Moon and Stain -It brushes to dry brush on the highlights.

Once the hills were painted I added the ship in the background.

I then base coated the cliffs with Cocoa.

I worked wet on wet to slip slap Camel into the Cocoa.

I used French Vanilla to further lighten the edges.

I then shaded the area under where the greenery will be with Asphaltum.

I am now working on the back ground shrubs and trees.

I have started to paint the houses in the back ground.

Continuing to paint the houses in the back ground.

This is a bevel cut surface.

The outer ring is where I will paint the numbers for the clock.

I will now start the lighthouse.

I have finished painting the lighthouse and foliage around it.

Next I will be painting the stone house on the right cliff.

I have finished the stone house and cliff on right.

I am now working on the foreground ship.

I have now mixed a glaze for the outer rim.

To make the GLAZE

I mixed 

Antique Green + Asphaltum + Plantation Pine

(3:2:touch)

I then added to this mix

Glazing Medium

(1:1)

I used a sponge brush to "press and lift"

 the 

glaze medium 

around the outer frame.

It will have a bubbly texture.

While the glaze mixture was still wet 

I used a piece of crumpled up plastic wrap

 to pounce over the area.

Pouncing with the crumpled plastic wrap gave a nice mottled appearance.

I let the outer frame dry completely before proceeding to paint the numbers.

I am now ready to paint the numbers!

I used a vellum template to transfer the numbers to the outer frame.

I used a liner brush with watered down Lamp Black paint to do the numbers.

Almost done!

The numbers are complete!

I used several coats 

of

Dura Clear Ultra Matte Varnish

on the clock face and outer frame.

I usually apply my first coat of varnish with a large brush.

I ONLY USE this brush for varnish.....nothing else!

I apply additional coats of varnish with a sponge.

I drilled a hole in the center of the clock face for the workings.

It's now THYME to assemble the clock!

Rosemary Reynolds and DecoArt 

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

Helping Artist and Blogger Outreach Programs.

THANK YOU!

I hope you have enjoyed watching me paint

this

Portside Clock

Happy Painting!

Lynn

Thyme to show you "Oyster Bay Small Sea Chest"

I'm hoping that 

Mother Nature 

will soon decide that it is

 SPRING Thyme 

on 

Cape Cod

and warm things up!

In the mean time I can paint things that remind me of SUMMER!

Let's step inside the STUDIO !

Today I am going to show you a project

 called

Oyster Bay

( Small Reproduction Sea Chest)

Design 

by 

Cynthia Erekson

My Palette

DecoArt Acrylics

Victorian Blue, Honey Brown, Milk Chocolate, Lamp Black, Dove Grey, Neutral Grey, Sand, Paynes Grey, Burnt Umber, Antique Gold

Lets Paint!

I began by filling any nail holes.

I let that dry then sanded the filled areas smooth.

I wiped any dust then sealed my box 

with

Multi-Purpose Sealer

I base coated the 4 sides of the outside of the chest

 and 

the outside of the lid with Victorian Blue.

When dry I base coated the base Lamp Black along with the edges.

I left some Victorian Blue showing through.

I then transferred just the ground areas to the front of the box.

The ground is base coated 

with 

Honey Brown 

and

  shaded

with 

Milk Chocolate.

I used a Moon Brush to dry brush Antique Gold highlights to the ground area.

I also used a Moon Brush to dry brush the clouds.

I've begun working on the water as well.

I shaded around the edges of the box front using Lamp Black.

I then transferred the remaining details to the front of the box.

I am working on the buildings.

Adding detail to the buildings.

I have completed the boat and the whales tail.

I am now working on the lighthouse.

I am now working on the remaining details such as the foliage on trees, fences, weeds and dock.

I added a thinned Honey Brown wash over the completed scene to give it a "mellow glow".

To do this I dabbed the wash with a paper towel to create faint mottling.

Next I created a woodgraining glaze.

I began by pouring (1) nickel size puddle of Lamp Black.

I added (8) nickel size puddles of Glazing Medium

I mixed well with my palette knife.

I then added (4) nickel size puddles

 of 

Easy Float 

and

 mixed again.

I used a small paring knife

to chisel out some small craters 

on one end of a cork.

I used the flat side of a sponge brush

to "brush and swirl "

a complete coat of glaze starting to the back side of the box.

I repeatedly and closely stamped 

the pock marked cork

 into the glazed surface.

I continued over the surface several times

 until the pattern in the glaze

 became smaller and more complex.

I repeated the glaze process on the sides and top of box as well.

I let the glaze dry completely before proceeding.

Once the glaze had dried

 I measured off a 1/4" border 

on the cover of the box

 using tape.

I used a small dry stencil brush 

to pounce Honey Brown 

unevenly into this border.

I distressed some of the edges of the box.

I added the "brass label" using Honey Brown.

I used my liner brush

 with thinned Dove Grey 

to add the word OYSTERS

 to the label.

I applied several coats of Dura Clear Soft Touch Varnish to the box.

Completed Oyster Bay Sea Chest

Rosemary Reynolds and DecoArt

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

Helping Artist and Blogger Outreach Programs.

Thank you DecoArt!

I hope you have enjoyed watching me paint my

 Oyster Bay Sea Chest.

Happy Painting!

Lynn