Autumn Leaf Tray
Posted by DecoArt on Sep 9th 2015
Brighten a kitchen with Americana® Acrylics and all the lovely colors of fall leaves.
SUPPLIES
- water container
- palette or plastic plate
- paper towels
- tracing paper
- transfer paper
- pencil
- #3 round brush
- 3/4" flat brush
- #6 flat brush
- painter's or masking tape (optional)
- large wooden tray with wavy edge
INSTRUCTIONS
- Use a 3/4” flat brush to basecoat the center of the tray Light Buttermilk. Rinse brush.
- Use the same brush and Heritage Brick to paint all the tray's edges inside and out. (Optional: Mask the edges first with painter’s or masking tape to paint clean edges.) Rinse brush.
- Use a pencil and the tracing and transfer papers to trace and transfer the leaf patterns randomly on the tray.
- Use a #6 flat brush to paint leaves with different color combinations or solids: Cadmium Orange with Citron Green and Jack-O’-Lantern Orange; Country Red with Heritage Brick; Cadmium Yellow with Light Cinnamon; Jack-O’-Lantern Orange with Light Cinnamon; Fawn, solid; Light Cinnamon, solid; and Wasabi Green with Cadmium Yellow and Light Buttermilk, etc.
- Use the #3 round brush to add leaf veins using Light Cinnamon, Jack-O’-Lantern Orange, Country Red, Fawn, Heritage Brick, and Light Buttermilk.
