Harvest Banquet Mixed Media Canvas
Posted by DecoArt on Nov 6th 2014
Fall colors and images are the focal points of this mixed media canvas.
SUPPLIES
- water container
- palette or plastic plate
- paper towels
- tracing paper
- #2 round brush
- 3/4" wash brush
- #0 liner brush
- 3/4" oval brush
- canvas
- white transfer paper
- #12 shader brush
- #8 flat shader brush
- size 24 floral wire
- fall harvest design stamp
- #6 liner brush
- #16 shader brush
- #M and #L dome brush
- 1/2" aura brush
- 1/2" mop brush
- small bottle
- #0 script liner brush
- 1 vintage ticket
INSTRUCTIONS
- Seal the surface of the wooden square or canvas with Americana Primer & Sealer. (If using a wooden square, sand first, seal, and when dry, sand again lightly to rough up the surface. Remove all dust.)
- Basecoat the square with Sand and let dry. Sand if using a wooden square.
- Brush-mix Traditional Burnt Sienna and Copper. Using a 3/4″ oval wash brush, apply to the left half of the piece.
- Brush-mix Persimmon and Bronze and apply to the right of the piece. (I kept this streaky, letting some background show through.)
- Using the harvest design stamp and Splendid Gold, stamp onto the background. (Stamp a larger one on the left behind the bottle and several smaller ones on the right. Refer to photo for placement.)
- Divide the sections of background with a flattened #6 liner brush and Traditional Burnt Umber.
- Trace and transfer the pattern onto the square with tracing paper and white or light graphite.
- Using a #0 script liner brush, dirty throughout, pull stems of wheat with Mustard Seed, Spicy Mustard, and Sand. Using a #2 round brush, add one-stroke leaves to sides and tips of stems with the same colors.
- Pull flower stems with a #0 script liner brush and Light Avocado, Foliage Green, and Margarita. Using a #2 round brush, flattened in Foliage Green and side-loaded in Margarita, add long, one-stroke leaves to the stems.
- Using a 1/2" aura brush, pick up Purple Cow, tap out excess paint onto the palette, and add flower clusters to the top of the stems.
- Pick up Soft Heather in a dirty brush, smash to blend, and add highlights to the flowers.
- Pick up a tad of Sand in a dirty brush and highlight a few flowers closer to the top right of the design.
- Clean the brush on a dry paper towel. Pick up Purple Cow to temper the brush. Pick up Purple Pizzazz, smash to blend, and add shading to flowers.
- Basecoat the pumpkin Persimmon.
- Using the dome brushes, pick up Gingerbread on a dry brush, take out the excess on the palette, and begin dry-brushing highlights on each section.
- Repeat, using Orange Twist, and then Sand.
- Add more highlights to the brightest areas with more Sand in a dirty brush.
- Float to separate the sections of the pumpkin, at left bottom, bottom, and right bottom, with Milk Chocolate, then Oxblood, Traditional Burnt Umber, and Black Plum, making each shadow a little narrower than the previous one.
- Do back-to-back float to separate the sections.
- For the stem, basecoat with a 1:3:touch mix of Milk Chocolate, Spicy Mustard, and Oxblood, using a flattened #2 round brush.
- Highlight the stem and where it meets the pumpkin on the right with Spicy Mustard, then Sand on dirty brush, adding more Sand in the lightest areas.
- Shade to separate the stem sections and under the main stem with Foliage Green, Light Avocado, Milk Chocolate, and Traditional Burnt Umber, in that order, making each shading a little narrower.
- Add reflected light to the lower left of the pumpkin with Margarita.
- Add tints of Purple Pizzazz to pumpkin and stem.
- Add tints of Orange Twist to flowers and pumpkin stem.
- Shade around pumpkin, over flowers and wheat with Milk Chocolate and then Traditional Burnt Umber.
- Let everything dry and then varnish with DuraClear Satin Varnish.
- Using Americana Primer & Sealer, wet area where you want the ticket to be. Place the ticket in the wet area and apply more Primer & Sealer over the ticket. Let dry.
- Use floral wire to secure a vintage bottle to the front of the square.
- (Optional) If desired, place small dried flowers in the bottle.