Feather - Nest - Egg - Rustic Wall Art

Nature,

 

Birds,

 

Trees,

 

Spring.

 

These are the things

 

that are making my paintbrush move today.

 

 

 

 

I love the rustic, earthy quality

 

of painting on fence board and pallets.

 

It is automatic texture for paint.

 

The light airy colors on

 

the deep textural background

 

are a cozy contrast.

 

 

These shapes and paint strokes

 

are easy to duplicate.

 

I hope you try it!

 

So start with fence board

 

30" long for the feather.

 

11" for the nest and egg.

 

It will look like this on the back.

 

 

 

or like this on the smaller boards -

 

 

 

 

Use Espresso Brown, Burnt Sienna, and Black

 

watered down and brush all over boards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then dry brush an off-white

 

over the brown/black base.

 

I used a light grey white.

 

It was Olympic paint "Quill" that I had on hand.

 

Lift the brush before you get to the edge

 

to leave the dark.

 

 

 

You can make simple paper patterns

 

in basic shapes to trace onto your boards.

 

 

 

 

For the feather I used

 

white, Craftsmart Suede, and Americana Neutral Grey,

 

and a little bit of Americana Sea Breeze.

 

 

 

 

I use a chip brush so it has ragged edges.

 

I think the main thing is to keep a very light touch

 

and not a lot of paint.

 

Very airy.

 

You can always add more.

 

 

 

 

Use a small angled brush to drag and skip

 

along the edge...keeping an airy look...

 

not a heavy line.

 

Wispy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Using the same grey, white, and suede,

 

I also added Folkart camel and Craftsmart Espresso Brown

 

to the nest palette.

 

Again using a brush with rough edges,

 

make a circular motion

 

and dip your brush into several of the colors.

 

 

 

Then using a small angle brush

 

make a criss cross motion on the edges.

 

These will be your sticks

 

on the edge of your abstract nest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now for your egg.

 

Still using the same colors...

 

Sea Breeze, Camel, White, Grey...

 

Brush very lightly the color onto the board

 

even leaving some background white show.

 

Add a white highlight on upper left

 

 and dark grey shade

 

on the bottom right.

 

 

 

 

Splatter Dark Brown

 

just a little bit

 

over all 3 art pieces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now you have some

 

sweet spring and summer wall art!

 

 

 

And you could arrange them in so many ways.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you give it a try!

 

Deb

 

 

 

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