Guest Chris Wallace demonstrates how to bring the outside world inside by creating a home office decorated in a garden theme. Wallace creates the illusion of a garden fence along the wall by using a paint layering and sanding technique. To perk up the accessories, she paints floral designs on the waste paper basket, computer screen, and in-and-out trays.
Materials:
Aleene's Premium-Coat Acrylic Paints: dusty mauve, dusty blush, dusty peach, dusty beige, dusty khaki, dusty sage, ivory, yellow ochre, dusty green, dusty spruce, dusty blue, dusty lavender, violet, dusty fuchsia, beige and medium yellow
For verdigris or weathered iron techniques use Aleene's Premium Coat Paints: white, antique gold, copper, verdigris, black, silver and weathered iron
Aleene's Enhancers: all-purpose primer, flow medium and matte varnish
Tulip 3D Paint: dusty rose slick, wedgewood blue slick, bronze pearl, iris slick, spruce green slick and gold pearl
Aleene's Glue or professional wood glue
Tulip 3D Tri-liner Paint Tips
Walnut Hollow wooden tray
Art from the Heart by Cindy Rippe computer cosy and mouse pad
Woodcrafts waste basket
wooden fence posts and 4'x4's
Provo Crafts birdhouses and Walnut Hollow birdhouses
large wooden knobs, for tray legs
sea wool sponge
electric hand sander
brushes: sponge applicator, stencil sponge, 3/4" flat brush
One Heart...One Mind stencils: swirls, stars, snowflakes and honeycombs
Steps:
- Apply one coat of all-purpose primer to all of the wood surfaces with a sponge applicator. Let the wood dry, and sand it lightly.
- Sponge on paint in patches of all the dusty colors and yellow ochre. After the paint has dried, paint over the patches with beige. While the beige paint is still wet, apply the ivory paint. Let it dry.
- Sand all of the layered painted surfaces to allow the dusty painted surfaces to show through.
- To paint the design on the waste basket, computer frame, mouse pad and tray, paint a base coat of beige and ivory, wet on wet. This helps the colors to soften.
- The palette colors for the flowers and the leaves are the following:
- For a base coat of ivory with dusty blue, use dusty blue for the stencil and wedgewood blue for the detail.
- For a base coat of ivory and dusty mauve, use dusty mauve for the stencil and dusty rose for the detail.
- For a base coat of ivory and dusty lavender, use dusty lavender for the stencil and iris for the detail.
- For a base coat of yellow ochre and medium yellow, use yellow ochre for the stencil and bronze for the detail.
- For a base coat of ivory and dusty green, use spruce green for the detail.
- Sponge the flower shapes on, adding ivory to the dusty flower color for more interest and variety to the base coat application. Paint the yellow flower with a sponge mixture of yellow ochre and yellow medium using a stencil sponge.
- Detail each flower with an appropriate Tulip 3D paint color. Let it dry.
- Base-coat the leaves, then detail them. Let the leaves dry.
- For a protective finish, apply 1 to 2 coats of matte varnish to all of the surfaces.
Note: Some of the decorations used were painted with verdigris and weathered iron. The basic techniques for both are listed below. These techniques are ideal for dimensional surfaces and may be used on all craft surfaces except fabric.
Verdigris - Paint the entire surface with a base coat of verdigris. Let it dry.
- Thin the white acrylic paint with water until it becomes a light-cream consistency.
- Working with one small area at a time, sponge on the mixture until the entire surface is covered, making sure that there is an excess of white paint in the crevices and detailed areas.
- To correct areas containing excess white paint, sponge over them with a small amount of verdigris, and use the thinned white acrylic paint mixture to repeat the sponging technique.
- Dry-brush over the entire surface with antique gold, then copper paint.
Weathered Iron - Paint the entire surface with a base coat of weathered iron.
- Let it dry.
- Thin black acrylic paint with water until it becomes a light-cream consistency.
- Working with one small area at a time, sponge on the mixture until the entire surface is covered, making sure that there is an excess of black paint in the crevices and detailed areas.
- To correct areas containing excess black paint, sponge over them with a small amount of weathered iron, and use the thinned black acrylic paint mixture to repeat the sponging technique.
- Dry-brush over the entire surface with antique gold then silver.
Resources birdhouses - Provo
Provo Craft
Website:
www.provocraft.comshaker boxes - wastebasket (Model #: 126)
Hall's Woodcrafts
PO Box 78
Bicknell, IN 47512
Phone: 812-735-4829
Toll Free Phone: 800-733-4820
Fax: 812-735-3187
Website:
www.hallswoodcrafts.comstencils - One Heart...One Mind
Available at art, craft and hobby stores.
One Heart...One Mind
4818 West 139th Terrace
Overland Park, KS 66224
Phone: 913-681-6745
Toll Free Phone: 888-414-3690
Fax: 913-681-6746
Email:
freshfunky@earthlink.net
Computer Cozy
paintable wood computer frame
Art From The Heart
Dept HGTV
2316 Florence St.
Blue Island, IL 60406
US
Phone: 708-824-9228
Email:
crippe@mindspring.com
URL:
www.packetemporium.com/artists/cindy-rippe
wood serving piece-Walnut Hollow
Walnut Hollow
We apologize the company no longer carries this item.Paint-A-Mousepad Kit
Kahoot Products
1608 Tree Lane
Bldg. 201
Snellville, GA 30078
Phone: 770-985-5460
Fax: 770-982-6617
Email:
hmctoys@aol.com
URL:
www.kahoot.com
Office Decor for the Decorative Painter
by Cindy Rippe
Art From The Heart
Dept HGTV
2316 Florence St.
Blue Island, IL 60406
US
Phone: 708-824-9228
Email:
crippe@mindspring.com
URL:
www.packetemporium.com/artists/cindy-rippe
Tulip Dimensional (3D) Paints, Aleene's Tips and Bottles, paint - Duncan
Duncan Enterprises
Website:
www.duncancrafts.com
Guests Chris Wallace
Director of Marketing
Walnut Hollow
Website:
www.walnuthollow.com
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