Painting Tips for Nest and Egg Art

It is so time to paint something Spring!

I'm always ready for warm spring reminders on my wall

so I start painting those hopeful signs now.

You can too!

Any wood or canvas surface will do.

This nest art is 22" x 22".

Start with a brown wash

and

White over top leaving an 11" circle.

Here are the colors for the golden nest:

The center brown is a mix of black and chocolate bar.

Alternate yellows and pull a flat brush

around the nest in a wave motion.

Then use a smaller round brush and do the same.

Then again with a fine liner and add some white.

Make an egg template, trace with chalk,

and fill in with white primer.

Shade with turquoise and aqua

giving a good white highlight.

Shade inner circle with brown.

Ashley's large brown egg painting in her book "Handmade Walls"

got me started!  

Though there is not paint instruction for this project,

there are so many other great frame ideas!

You know you want some happy spring art too!

Hope you get your brushes out : )

This helps me get through winter and look forward to Spring.

Two years ago at this time

I made some other Spring Art 

that you might want to try.

This could be a great project this February Weekend,

Deb

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Spring Art DIY - Carrot Door Hanging

Ready or not -

(and I know you're ready)

here comes 

some Spring art!

You can start this project now

and it will be ready for your

front door soon!

I used 1/2" plywood measuring 10" x 40".

Sand all edges.

Paint back and edges gray.

Paint front primer white mix.

Lay out stripes 4" and 3.25" alternating.

(a standard 4x6 photo makes a good template)

Using two colors - gray and white -

brush on stripes.

Enlarge this carrot pattern to fit the 10 x 40 space.

I made my own mixes of paint - pale orange

and pale green - to try to match the colors

in my photoshop sample.

Paint slightly darker orange stripes.

Put a darker green gray shade on the carrot leaf.

Attach D rings on back.

Add two 32" lengths of ribbon.

Simple.

Modern.

Folk art.

Will make a light hearted 

and graphic impact 

on your wall

or front door.

Hope you try it!

Deb

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Feathered Nest Friday

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Work it Wednesday

Robin Eggs April Calendar Page

Let the chirping begin.

 

April 1st is right around the corner.

 

I can hear all of the bird busyness

 

outside of my window.

 

 

 

That's inspiration for an art project!

 

Happy Birds and Happy Art.

 

Though I've always painted the old fashioned way -

 

 

 

 

I'm learning to digitally paint in photoshop too.

 

I was a little resistant at first,

 

but now I love my new computer brush friends.

 

It's a challenge to achieve the layered texture

 

that I love

 

but I'm having fun with something new.

 

So, here is some computer art

 

for your April 2013 .

 

 

Click Here to download your page.

(this will take you to my pdf file. 

There will be a lot of "blinkin" download buttons.

You want the one in the middle

that says Robin Eggs April 2013)

 

 

I am loving all of the Spring Bird action

 

here at the lake.

 

Yesterday we had some pelicans visit.

 

They will only stay a short time

 

but I got some video of them on the water.

You can see them Here.

 

 

Have a great Easter Weekend,

 

Deb

 

"This same good news that came to you

is going out all over the world.

It is changing lives everywhere

just as it did yours

that very first day you heard

and understood the truth

about God's

 great kindness to sinners"

Colossians 1:6

 



 

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