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How To Paint Pinecones

November 29, 2011 By Colleen Jorgenson 2 Comments

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You know, in October when I blogged 31 days in a row and painted 31 paint projects, I thought that creating a bunch of holiday paint projects would be simple. Easy. No sweat!

And I was oh-so wrong. Again.

I had good intentions though. I thought of a bunch of holiday paint themes and easy projects and listed them on my calendar. If you’re a list-maker like me, you know the false feeling of satisfaction you get by making a To-Do list. Like there’s some magical spell cast just by writing each task down and Poof! It’s done!

I even added them to my Google Calendar so every day I get these cute little reminders in my email to post these paint projects that I haven’t painted yet.

By now, we (yes, I include you in my dilemma, ok?) should’ve painted the following:

  • Pottery Barn dropcloth runner
  • Birch Trees
  • Snowman Paper dolls      did those!
  • Snowman Goblet Candleholder
  • Snowman Coasters
  • Birch trees
  • Poinsettias on goblets
  • Gingerbread Man Apron

And that’s just a partial list. Back on November 8 I had scheduled a Pinecone Tutorial. The one I’m posting today.

So here’s what I’m thinkin’ – I’m either 20 days behind schedule OR I have 20 more days than the calendar actually says.

I’m leaning toward the latter. What d’ya say? How’d you like an extra 20 days right about now? Are ya with me?

Welcome to my own private (twisted) world. It’s a fun place in here. We like to play with colors and make fun To-Do lists. And paint pinecones.

How To Paint A Simple Pinecone

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1. Paint a pointed egg shape with Burnt Umber (dark brown)

 

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2. With Café au Lait (tan/brown) start at top of cone, adding flat little nonpointed triangles.

I have no idea what shapes these things are. I asked the Hubs and he said a riblet. Riblet?!? Hello?

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3. Fill in the entire pinecone with nonpointy triangles. At the bottom wash a layer of Café au Lait (tan) over the triangles.

 

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4. Highlight triangles with a lighter shade of tan. Or mix a little gray or white in. Add the highlighting to the top center of each triangle.

There. A simple pinecone. But it’ll look a whole lot better if we –

Paint a Pine Branch

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1. Paint the stem with light brown. Paint outer needles with Seaweed (dark green).

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2. Load a liner brush with Seaweed (dk green) and then pick up some White on the tip of the brush.

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3. Paint the inner needles (on an angle) with the green/white mixture, filling in the branch.

Looks better with the pine branch, doesn’t it?

Of course, if you don’t want to paint a dark brown pointy egg and then some light brown nonpointy triangles, you can always paint even simpler pinecones.

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They just don’t look quite the same, do they. (Although a pine branch go along way to making them look better.)

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But if you’re gonna paint a table that your brothers made for your mountain cabin, you’ll want to paint Pinecone #1.

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On November 28. And imagine that it’s actually November 8 and pretend that you’re totally on top of your game.

Christmas is going to be great this year. Even if it winds up being in February.

 

Filed Under: How To & PIY, PIY

Comments

  1. Lisa Ragle says

    July 27, 2014 at 9:31 am

    So glad I found this site, Thank you

    Reply
  2. Gwendolyn Collier says

    August 3, 2017 at 3:52 pm

    Thank you. I have dabbled with some painting but certainly no expert. Now I can paint some kitchen canisters and toss in a tinge of gold and burgundy as well – adding something as well as the pine cones with something with thin lines…have sheer panels that are clear and have the shape of Christmas ornaments (more long than round) small bands of gold overlaid with some fine lines brown and burgundy (design on sheer panels some face outward and other facing inward to make elongated lines and make windows look classy)…I have no kitchen windows and wanting something to bring out colors I have on a window computer open room facing kitchen…Of course I will experiment on paper first to be sure my design goes well with pine cones (have pine cone candle in entry and fake squirrel in clear tall jar as well with a few other items

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