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 

DecoArt American Acrylics

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 

Dazzling Metallics Shimmering Silver

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

 Dazzling Metallics Shimmering Silver

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 

GLOSS Sealer/Finisher

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