SHEEP MANTEL CLOCK by Kerry Trout EXCLUSIVE
Sheep Mantel Clock by Kerry Trout PALETTE DecoArt Americana Acrylics Antique Green #13147 Baby Blue #13042 Bleached Sand #13251 Blue Haze Light* Burnt Sienna #13063 Celery Green #13208 Dark Chocolate #13065 Lamp (Ebony) Black #13067 Fawn #13242 Golden Straw #13168 Honey Brown #13163 Light Avocado #13106 Mississippi Mud #13094 Plantation Pine #13113 Primary Yellow #13201 Scarlet #13295 Snow White (Titanium White) #13001 Zinc #13539 DecoArt Dazzling Metallics Glorious Gold #14078 *Discontinued by DecoArt OTHER MEDIUMS DecoArt Perfect Crackle 2-Step Medium Walnut Gel Stain #70137 Dura Clear Matte Varnish #87395 Acrylic Sealer Finisher Gloss Spray #70835 BRUSHES Papillon Brushes by The Artist s Club Round size 1 #20157 Round size 3/0 #20156 Round size 2 #20158 Liner size 1 #20141 Liner size 2 #20142 Liner size 10/0 #20145 Liner size 0 #20146 Comb size 1/2" #20153 Shader size 10 #20130 Shader size 6 #20127 Shader size 8 #20129 Assorted scruffy brushes Metal Palette Knife #70194 or craft stick Soft cloth Gray Graphite Paper 18x36 #70141 Sand paper INSTRUCTIONS Start by sanding the clock. Add pattern line (or sketch in with pencil) of the horizon. At this point you will need simply a guideline to indicate where the sky stops. Mix Baby Blue, Celery Green, and Snow White (1:1:2) to achieve a robin egg blue-green color. Paint sky on the front, sides, and back edges down to the horizon line. Apply two coats, sanding lightly between coats. Using a medium size scruffy, drybrush light and airy clouds in circular motions. (Figure 1) Remember to carry the clouds around to the sides. With a small, medium scruffy, pounce in distant foliage with a mix of Celery Green, Blue Haze Light, and Snow White about 1:1:1 ratio (you want a pale green-blue). Add a bit of Plantation Pine to darken that, and pounce on larger trees. (Figure 2) Make this 2 artistsclub.com
foliage very airy and light. Pounce on Plantation Pine into the centers and bases of the trees. Use the Script Liner size 1 and stroke in a few trunks and limbs with Dark Chocolate. Highlight with a touch of Snow White added. Pounce on a few more clusters of blended Antique Green and Snow White foliage onto the front of the trees to break up limbs and trunks. Trace on the barn paint with shades of Zinc and Snow White and make the roof Honey Brown and Burnt Sienna. Use the No. 8 flat shader and starting at the tree line, stroke in varied tints of Antique Green and Snow White and Celery Green. The field that is furthest away needs to be very light in color. Make the strokes horizontal. This distant field needs to be only an inch or so tall on your surface. Next, use a large flat brush and paint the rest of the grass and water areas Light Avocado. The aim here is to just cover the wood and get a green primer coat down. Go with the grain of the wood (vertically) and blend into the previous grass strokes just above it. Don t worry about the complete coverage you will be painting on top of this base coat. Let dry. (Figure 3) Use the comb or rake brush and begin stroking on distant grasses. Use blends of Celery Green, Antique Green, Light Avocado, Honey Brown, and Golden Straw. Don t mix together but paint very random blends. Apply the grass by stroking downward with just the ends of the comb s bristles. Use thinned paint to avoid blotches of paint. The distant grasses will need to be very short, overlapping strokes. Go across the field, from left to right, and back and forth. This is not a quick process lots of layering of grass will help with depth. As you paint the grass, the strokes need to become longer as you near the foreground, at bottom of the clock. Be careful to make very wispy strokes, so you create what looks like blades of grass. Remember to vary the colors for a natural look. As you get closer to the bottom and to the foreground, start making the colors a bit darker by adding Plantation Pine to the mix. Also, your grass strokes now should be done from the bottom up. So touch the brush to the surface and make quick, upward strokes so the grass has tapered ends. The key here is lots of overlapping! Be very random and loose with your strokes avoid making them perfectly straight up-and-down. Meadow grass lays every which way, so the more loose you are with the grass, the more realistic it will appear. Don t forget to carry the grass around the sides of the clock. About two inches from the bottom stroke in a long horizontal dark area in the grass to indicate shadow. It is easier to paint the sheep s shadow before you paint the sheep. (Figure 4) Use the same comb brush with a mix of Light Avocado and Ebony Black about 5:1 ratio. With blended greens in a watery mix, stroke on grass with the artistsclub.com 3
comb brush from the base upward just thin strokes, as you will add more grass on top of this for detail. Trace on sheep outline with white transfer paper (Figure 5). Basecoat sheep and lamb with Fawn. Let dry. Replace pattern and transfer the details (eyes, ears, folds of skin) Use dark transfer paper. Use a medium flat scruffy and pounce on Mississippi Mud and Snow White (2:1) for shading. Make arched pounced (pivot your wrist) to contour the body (Figure 6). Follow with darker pounces of Mississippi Mud with the same brush. Switch to small brush and stroke and shading on face and legs. Use small scruffy and pounce on Dark Chocolate for the deepest shadows. Use larger scruffy and pounce on Bleached Sand (Figure 7-9). Again, pivot your wrist so you arch the direction and are following the roundness of the woolly body, particularly on the mother sheep. Overlap shaded areas but don t completely cover them. Leave darkest areas dark. Stroke on lighter areas of the head and feet too. Highlight the lightest areas with Snow White pounced on lightly. Paint inside the ears Dark Chocolate and black on the mother, and Dark Chocolate mixed with a touch of Scarlet for the lamb s ear. Paint the hooves Ebony Black with Zinc highlights. With a No. 0 liner, paint the eyes Honey Brown outlined with Ebony Black. Paint noses Dark Chocolate with a touch of black. (Figure 14) Use the comb brush loaded with Light avocado to stroke grass in front of the feet. Don t cover them completely just enough to make standing IN the grass and not floating above it. Use a script Liner size 2 and stroke in different shades of grass in Light Avocado, Antique Green, and Golden Straw. Make the strokes long like meadow grass. Always stroke upward and end in a fine taper. Make grass in a random directions. Add a few clusters of leaves to some stem s and stroke on field flowers with a 3/0 round brush by making them with tiny lines and comma strokes (Figure 12-13). Where they are shaded by the sheep make the flowers a medium gray, and dot the flowers with Honey Brown on those shaded flowers. On the rest of them dot the centers with Honey Brown and then Primary Yellow Pounce a few distant patches of flowers in the furthest field. Add fence posts in the distance with Zinc highlighted by Snow White. Stroke in grass in front of the posts. Add a few very fine strokes of Dark Chocolate to suggest fence wire. Paint a few birds in the sky with a Round size 2 and Dark Chocolate. Paint clock face two coats of Bleached Sand, sanding lightly after each coat. Cut out face pattern and dark transfer paper the same size. Place the transfer paper under the pattern and tape them both into the clock face. Take care to position the twelve and six numerals straight up and down. Transfer pattern. Paint Roman numerals with a 10/0 Liner (Figure 11). Dip dot hour marks with Ebony Black and make minute marks small dashes of (2:1) Honey Brown and Ebony Black. Use the tip of a No. 2 script liner and sign your name where indicated in very thin Ebony Black. I chose to sign in a very thin cursive but you may add your name (or the name you choose) in block print whatever is comfortable. The maker s name is usually in this spot and it s just a fun way to sign your work. Let dry completely. Paint black band around face Ebony Black, as well as the top and bottom of the clock. Paint 1/16 wide line around black band with Glorious Gold Metallic and a No. 1 script liner. Apply DecoArt Perfect Crackle 2-Step Medium to clock face with a Shader size 10 according to label directions. Lay the clock flat and allow the crackle to dry completely. Varnish the front, top, sides of clock with Dura Clear Matte Varnish. Let dry completely. I prefer to allow overnight drying time after these varnish coats. Mix Walnut Stain with water to thin it. Use a large flat shader to paint the inside using long, vertical strokes. The mix will absorb into the wood, so be sure it is thin enough to allow the woodgrain to show through. Although this area won t be visible, it gives your piece a nice finished look. Apply Walnut Stain with a Shader size 10 to the clock face. Immediately wipe off in a circular motion with a soft cloth. Stain will stay in crackled surface. Leave a bit more stain around the edges of the face. (Figure 10) Apply the stain to the rest of the clock, small areas at a time, and wiping off with the cloth as you go. All more stain to stay near the edges it gives it a nice antiqued look. Use a pallet knife to apply Dark Chocolate to the corners and edges of the clock. This is an easy way to mimic worn edges without the work of sanding. Make a few random nicks in the wood by touching the end of the palette knife to the surface. This is another trick to make your newly painted clock look quite old! FINISHING Add a couple of light coats of Americana Spray Matte Finish and then complete your piece by installing clock movement. 4 artistsclub.com
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