Happy Friday! It’s Day 21 of my 31 Days of Easy Holiday Paint Projects. Phew! If I ever say I’m gonna do 31 days of blogging – with paint projects – again, somebody stop me! {name that movie}
To be honest, I never dreamed (dreamt?) I’d still be working on Fall stuff on Day 21. But here I am – with cattails.
Simple. Really, really simple. But I love ‘em.
I love their color, and shape, and their height. Even when I was a floral designer, I loved using cattails because they add height to an arrangement without a lot of bulk.
I’m adding them to the cornucopia painting. Pay no attention to the blobs below them. We’ll get to those little lovelies in a couple of days.
Now, I gotta fess up and tell ya I don’t have any tan/wheat paint color. And since the whole cornucopia, fruit, fall leaf thing is a tutorial, I didn’t want to have you mixing 4 & 5 colors together.
You might wind up crawling thru your computer screen and to get me!
I did, however, mix a couple of colors – Lemonade + White – for the stems.
But they looked a little too pastie, which could’ve been due to the white background – I’m not sure. So I mixed a little Burnt Umber + White and painted just a bit on each stem.
For the ‘tails’ I just painted a rectangle of Raw Sienna – the same color I used on the cornucopia.
They kinda look like little hot dogs, don’t they?
Little hot dogs I wouldn’t want to eat, but still . . .
Then with the same Lemonade + White + Burnt Umber (hey, that’s only 3 colors, ok?), I added the little tips.
I wanted a little more dimension on the ‘tails’ so I painted some Burnt Umber on the sides and a little on the top and bottom.
But they still looked a little . . . flat.
So I took the teensiest amount of Burnt Umber and painted it along just one side of the stems. That’ll work for now, I guess.
Now, if when you try these, you might not want to use a liner brush for the Burnt Umber. I know, I just said yesterday that it doesn’t matter what brush you use.
I should’ve said it usually doesn’t matter.
To get this teensie-weensie line I actually used the chisel edge of a flat brush and lightly – very, very lightly – stroked the paint on.
If you can’t get your line fine enough, just reapply the Lemonade mixture right next to it and that’ll work fine too.
Alrighty then! Tomorrow – wheat stalks. Then we’re filling up this baby with a pumpkin, fall leaves and yummy fruit!
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