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FOUR SEASONWOOD BOX

by Linda Lover

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Palette:

DECOART AMERICANA ACRYLIC PAINTAntique White #13058Bittersweet Chocolate #13195Black Forest Green #13083Black Green #13137Cadmium Yellow #13010Charcoal Grey #13088Colonial Blue #13613 Cotton Candy #13287Foliage Green #13259Honey Brown #13163Lamp Black #13067Light Cinnamon #13114Light Lime #13292Marigold #13194Persimmon #13516Petal Pink #13214Rookwood Red #13097Soft Black #13155Titanium White #13239Tomato Red #13169Winter Blue #13190

Mixes:Rookwood Red + Black Forest Green = dark red (op-tion Black Plum #13172)

Colonial Blue + Soft Black = medium gray (option Zinc #13539)

Surface:7” Open Wood Box #63118

Misc. SuppliesBrush Basin #70174Tracing Paper Roll #83175Bown paper for sandingPalette Paper Pad #70560Gray Transfer paper #70141Paper TowelTack Cloth #70104Pencil or StylusToothbrush or Speckling ToolCotton Swab (cotton removed) (optional)DecoArt DuraClear Matte Varnish #87395

Brushes:

PAPILLION BY THE ARTISTS CLUBWash, size ¾” #20102Shader, size 4 #20126; size 10 #20130Round, size 1 #20157; size 3 #20159Deerfoot, Set size ¼”; size 3/8” #20167Liner, size 10/0 #20145Scruff y Shader size 4 or similar

PREPARATION:Basecoat entire box Winter Blue using glaze wash brush. Dry, sand with brown paper, remove grit with tack cloth or damp towel. Dry and paint a second time for best coverage.

Transfer design to tracing paper. Barns and foliage are a repeat design using a variety of palette colors. Seasonal details are an option and can be transferred once design is complete and surface is dry.

PAINTING INSTRUCTIONS:Deerfoot Stipplers will work best dry or as dry as possible. Stippling style can vary from fl ush to slightly bending tip at its side as well as scrubbing the brush.

Paint sky on all four panels using a glaze wash brush (or your favorite brush for painting sky and clouds). Using a freestyle application, results will vary. Winter Blue, Colonial Blue and Titanium White are used for the sky and can be blended for depth of color and interest. The sky can be left plain or blended to cre-ate clouds. Colors can be used in any order, additional white for a lighter sky; more dark, as in winter, for contrast with snow.

Spring: (Sheep in the Meadow)Begin painting sky with Colonial Blue, apply Winter Blue about an inch below; blend into the fi rst color. Wipe brush and add Titanium White below Winter Blue, blending upward and then down to the horizon.

Stipple foliage with Black Forest Green from bottom to about half way up using a 3/8” deerfoot stippler, wipe brush; touch in Foliage Green to continue stip-pling. Add random highlights of Light Lime with a ¼” deerfoot stippler.

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Basecoat barn Bittersweet Chocolate with a #10 shader. Highlight with Light Cinnamon. Brighten with an application of Antique White to lighten the highlight color. Dry brush lightly with Antique White to enhance highlights. Double load a #3 round with Soft Black and Antique White, paint narrow roof lines; use this double load with a #4 shader to paint fl at roof sections. Double load the #4 shader with Winter Blue and Lamp Black to paint windows. Double load the #10/0 round with Antique White and Bittersweet Chocolate line lower window edge.

To paint hills, load a 3/8” deerfoot stippler with Black Forest Green and stipple the bottom of each hill; wipe brush and continue to the top with Foliage Green; high-light Light Lime. It might be helpful to down size to a ¼” stippler when adding grass right under the barn.

Transfer tree lines. Double load a #4 shader with Antique White and Charcoal Grey, paint trunk. Re-peat double load using a #1 round to paint branches, . Double load a #1 round with Honey Brown and Char-coal Grey to paint swing rope; highlight Antique White. Double load a #3 round with Lamp Black and Titanium White, paint tire swing. Use a 3/8” dry deerfoot stip-pler to lightly stipple apple blossoms Petal Pink, stipple fi rst highlight Cotton Candy and the second highlight is sparsely stippled Titanium White.

Use a #4 scruff y or similar size to stipple sheep Titani-um White that has been “dirtied” with a tint of Charcoal Grey. Double load a #1 round with Lamp Black and Ti-tanium White to paint sheep details. When completed, stipple lightly over any dark area with Titanium White to add texture to the wool.

Touch up grass beneath tree and sheep with the 3/8” deerfoot stippler using Black Forest Green and Foliage Green.

Summer: (Apple Tree)Using a 3/8” deerfoot stippler, stipple only the foliage at the left beginning with Black Forest Green; highlight Foliage Green.

Basecoat barn Persimmon with a #10 shader. Dry, paint over with Rookwood Red. Highlight Tomato Red. Brighten highlights with random strokes of Honey Brown. Apply a Tomato Red wash over the barn to fi n-ish. Double load a #3 round with Lamp Black and Ti-tanium White, paint narrow roof line; use this load with a #10 shader for fl at roof sections and a #4 shader to add windows. Highlight windows with a dot of Titani-um White. Double load a #1 round with Soft Black and Winter Blue, line under each window. Use a #10/0 to line the top of the window Lamp Black. Darken Rook-wood Red with a little Black Forest Green and use as a wash to shade under eaves and darken door opening

with a #4 shader. Dry brush door opening Winter Blue.

Stipple grass in foreground same as in “Spring”.

Paint tree referring to directions in “Spring”. Foliage will be dense so fewer limbs can be traced. Stipple core of tree with Black Green with a 3/8” stippler. Dry, stipple over with Black Forest Green. Highlight Foliage Green. Dry before adding apples with Tomato Red. Dot apples with cotton removed from the end of a cot-ton swab, wet and touch in Tomato Red. Various sizes and values in color can be created with this technique. Use Tomato Red right off the palette for bright apples.

Paint chickens Titanium White with a #3 round; detail feathered areas with a wash of Soft Black. Use a #10/0 liner double loaded with Tomato Red and Rookwood Red to dot comb and waddle. Dot beak and feet Honey Brown; dot eye Lamp Black.

Paint pump with a #4 shader double loaded with Lamp Black and Winter Blue. Paint pump detail with the same double load using a # 3 round for the handle and the #10/0 liner liner for thin lines. Paint bucket Titanium White, shade Colonial Blue with a #4 shader. Detail handle and rim with a #10/0 liner double loaded with Lamp Black and Titanium White.

Shade under tree, hens and pump using a ¼” deerfoot stippler loaded with Black Forest Green and Black Green. Wipe brush and pick up Black Forest Green and stipple to keep foreground grass blended and dark; highlight with Foliage Green.

Autumn (Pumpkin Fields)Stipple foliage only at left with a ¼” deerfoot, begin with Light Cinnamon, add Persimmon and highlight Cadmium Yellow. Pull broken lines through foliage using a #10/0 liner double loaded with Soft Black and Antique White. Stipple lightly above and below broken lines to keep them looking natural rather than placed.

Basecoat barn Winter Blue with a #10 shader. Pull up strokes of Titanium White. Shade under eaves and at inner sides with Colonial Blue. Paint roof and windows referring to “Spring”. Use Lamp Black wash to deepen color on shed door opening.

For small hills use a dry 3/8” deerfoot ad begin at the top of the fi elds with Marigold, wipe brush and blend with Honey Brown. Wipe brush and bring up Light Cin-namon from the lower part up into the Honey Brown. Add Bittersweet Chocolate at the side. When dry, use a small brush to wash Black Forest Green and Foliage Green randomly over the left fi eld for pumpkin leaves; a free style application. Dry and use a cotton swab tip with cotton removed to dot pumpkins, touch in Persim-mon with the edge touched in Marigold, randomly dot over the green. Use a wash of Light Cinnamon and

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paint lines freestyle over the right fi eld for crop rows using a #3 round.

Use a 3/8” deerfoot stippler with Marigold on brush toe, stipple large hill beginning at the top, wipe brush and pick up Black Forest Green, stipple to bottom of foreground. Deepen the green along the bottom by adding a small amount of Soft Black. Use deerfoot bristle tips and Marigold to lighten areas with grassy detail.

Paint trunk and limbs on tree the same as for “Spring”. Use a 3/8” stippler, begin stippling Light Cinnamon foliage randomly, wipe brush and continue with Per-simmon, wipe brush and highlight Cadmium Yellow. Double load a #10/0 liner with Antique White and Bit-tersweet Chocolate to paint swing rope. Double load liner with Light Cinnamon and Antique White to paint swing seat.

Paint pumpkins Persimmon with a #4 shader, highlight Marigold. Use a light wash of Soft Black in the pump-kin crevices to shade. Use a #3 round double loaded with Black Forest Green and Marigold to paint pumpkin stems and leaves.

Paint fl ying crows Lamp Black with a #10/0 liner. Paint crow on pumpkin Lamp Black with a #3 round; high-light wing Winter Blue. Pull up grass with Black Forest Green using deerfoot stippler brush toe.

Winter: (Gathering of Cardinals)Stipple foliage with a 3/8” deeerfoot stippler and a mix of Colonial Blue and Soft Black to a medium grey; high-light Titanium White. Dry, add random Titanium White to highlight if brighter highlight is desired.

Basecoat barn Persimmon with a #10 shader. Stroke Tomato Red over the basecoat. Shade Rookwood Red under eves and at recessed corners. Load shader with Tomato Red, touch corner in Persimmon, add high-lights. Paint roof with a #4 shader double loaded with Titanium White and Colonial Blue. Repeat roof colors using a #3 round to paint narrow roof lines. Double load a #4 shader with Soft Black and Colonial Blue, paint windows; frame with Titanium White using a liner. Darken open door on shed with a wash of Soft Black.

Paint foreground with a ¾” wash brush (largest hill); a #10 shader (smaller two hills). Begin with Titanium White at the top of each hill, wipe brush, pick up Colo-nial Blue at the bottom of each hill section and blend the two colors where they meet.

Use a #4 shader for tree trunk and the round or liner for the limbs with a double load of Titanium White and Soft Black. Add Titanium White to limbs for cling-ing snow. Paint a few icicles freestyle on each side of smaller barn buildings using a #10/0 liner and Titanium

White. Touch up ground below tree with a #10 shader double loaded with Titanium White and Colonial Blue.

Using a #10/0 liner paint cardinals with a double load of Rookwood Red and Tomato Red, dot face with Lamp Black.

Double load a #3 round with Black Forest Green and Soft Black to paint line for evergreen trunk. Use a 3/8’ angular brush to tap in the boughs lightly in stippling fashion. Dry. Load the angular with Black Forest Green and tip brush toe corner in Titanium White, add more boughs, highlighted with snow. Add bits of Titanium White through the middle for snow.

Paint mailbox post with a double load of Soft Black and Titanium White using a #3 round. Paint mail box with a load of Titanium White and touch corner sparingly in Lamp Black, pre-blend colors and then blend when painting.

Paint mini strokes of grass with Soft Black and Titanium White double loaded on a #10/0 liner. Double load a #10 shader with Titanium White and Colonial Blue, paint snow drifts beneath.

Use a toothbrush or spatter tool to spatter Titanium White over the surface for snow.

FINISHING:Apply two coats of varnish, drying between applica-tions.

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Pattern at 100%1" x 1"

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