Materials:
33" x 54" canvas
Durable Colors (Khaki #53332)
Folk Art Artists' Pigments (Titanium White #480, Burnt Umber #462, Asphaltum #476, Cobalt Blue #720, Yellow Light #918, Medium Yellow #455, Yellow Ochre #917, Hauser Green Light #459, Olive Green Dark #234, Pure Black #479, Ice Blue Dark #235)
brushes (flat shaders #10 and #12, 1" wash brush, filbert #8 and #10, script liner #2, base coat brush, glaze varnish brush, flogger brush #30115)
Neutral Decorator Glaze (#53501)
wood graining tool (#30114)
floating medium
tracing paper
tape
Steps:
- Base-coat canvas with Khaki. Let dry.
- Create a painted frame with a wood graining technique. Create a dark brown glaze by mixing 60 percent Burnt Umber with 40 percent neutral glaze. Mark-off frame area with painter's tape. Brush mixture around frame with a chip brush.
- While glaze is wet, drag and rock wood graining tool in a straight continuous line around the border area. Let dry. Soften the look by brushing the same glaze mixture over the wood grained border. Before it dries, slap the glaze with a flogging brush held horizontally to remove some of the glaze and give it a grainy, textural look.
- Trace and transfer fish design. Base-coat the body in Hauser Green Light and let dry. Add transfer lines over the green paint to denote individual sections of the fish. Load a large flat brush with floating medium and Olive Green on half of the brush. Paint the individual sections by walking the color down the stripes of the fish. Flip the brush over and walk the dark side of the brush down the dark line just created.This will soften the colors between each stripe. Repeat on all the dark markings on the fish.
- Base-coat top dorsal fin in Yellow Ochre and let dry. Add transfer lines over the yellow paint to denote individual sections of the fish. Load small flat brush with floating medium and half of it with Burnt Umber. Create stripes over lines as described above and let dry.
- Base-coat eye with Yellow Ochre and let dry. Add a black pupil and let dry. Shade top and bottom of eye with Burnt Umber. Once dry, add a dot of white to the top portion of the pupil with a liner brush. Let dry.
- Use small brushstrokes of Yellow Light to add highlights between the dark green stripes. Once dry, apply a coat of varnish over entire surface.Let dry.
- To antique the fish, brush Burnt Umber glaze mixture over the entire surface . Before it dries, rub excess off with rags. Buff the fish and leave more around the outer edges. Use a blending brush to soften rag marks.
Resources paintbrushes, books - Silver Brush Ltd.
canvas - Fredrix
Fredrix
PO Box 646
Lawrenceville, GA 30246
USA
Phone: 770-963-5256
Fax: 800-882-8272
Durable Colors, Folk Art Artists' Pigments, Neutral Decorator Glaze
Plaid Enterprises Inc.
Website:
www.plaidonline.com
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