Roma Land Woodcrafts: Technique Thursday: Multi Surface Paint

Well, now, I guess I thought the elves would finish this post for me.

There they were, just sitting on the shelf above the laptop.

I did, after all, add all the pictures and then promptly

went about my day doing...

hmmmmm...what was I doing?

I do remember there was some ice cream at one point.

Oh, well, WELCOME to my world!

I thought I would share some tiles that I painted using

DecoArt Multi-Surface Satin Acrylics

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I had a special order for 4 tiles.

I have a habit, not necessarily a bad habit, of painting more than needed so my customer can have a choice.

I want them to be happy.

So, these are the tiles that I painted.

She chose the first four.

This is a design by Betty Bowers that

I painted using these paints.

Isn't he cute!!

I haven't used this paint for very many things.

It is very similar to using water-based Enamel Paint.

You can't add water to it, or it will ruin its adhesive quality.

I have no problems with not using water since I learned to paint using the "dirty brush" method,

meaning that I added my highlights/shading by working them in with the base coat.

It was all I knew to do, and it is similar to

how one would paint with oils,

but I have never done that, either...LOL

These paints are very translucent, so I base my design with white.

You may add White to your paint to help make them more opaque,

but I am ok with that; however, I DO wish the black were opaque,

but I can live with it for a bit.

I free-hand many of my paintings.

The colors I used were:

Black Tie, Cottonball, Pumpkin Patch, Paprika, True Blue, leprechaun, coffee bean, muted Gold, eggplant, red barn

Shake the bottles really well.

I discovered that the paint seems to separate easily.

I thought I would share how to paint a very easy bird.

I showed you how to paint a pumpkin, so let's add to it.

Start by making a ZERO for the bird's body.

Add the two sides to the Pumpkin and add the tail to the bird, simply by making a rectangle.

Make the end of the tail jagged.

Base the colors.

For the bird, I added White to the True Blue to make it lighter.

Notice on the bird, I left a little of his belly white.

I also added two little lines for his beak.

I added two coats of each color.

I thinned the Red Barn and added it to the belly.

Add the beak with Muted Gold.
Use a flat brush and add Paprika to the edges of the pumpkin.
I added some Muted Gold to inside the pumpkin, too.
Add the eye to the bird with Black Tie,
followed with a dot of cottonball.
Using the darker True Blue, add some lines to the tail
and add a little to the top of the bird.
Outline with Black Tie.