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1. Clean
greenware and fire to witness cone 04.
2. Glaze
Inside–
Brush 3 coats of CGE580
Milk Chocolate
on inside of planter, or use a colored glaze of your
choice. You can also roll one coat on inside with glaze
of your choice slightly thinned with water.
3. Antique—Paint
on 1 coat of CS680
Burnt Umber on
entire piece. Wipe back with wet sponge to antique
leaving color heavier in crevices. Rinsing the sponge
often to remove excess color in sponge.
If the sponge is dirty with color you are just
moving the color around on the piece, not removing it.
Antiquing:
Antiquing is a decorating process in which you
remove applied color to accentuate detail.
4. Bark—Using
large sumi brush, apply one coat of CS681
Warm Wood.
This coat can be applied uneven to create the wood
texture.
5. Yellow
Leaves—
Apply 3 coats using
a 2-Color Blend. Using
a medium sumi brush, load brush in CS623
Buttercup and
starting at center vein and work out half the distance
of the leaf by patting on this color.
Then load without rinsing brush with CS616
Orange and
start at outer edges and pat on this color back towards
yellow blending the two colors where they meet. Do
one leaf at a time with both colors so you can work wet
on wet. Let
dry between coats.
6. Orange
and Red Leaves—-
The orange and red leaves are completed using the same
technique as the yellow leaves. Using a medium sumi and CS616
Orange in
the center of the leaf working out from vein and CS611
Red Matters on
edge of leaf working back to orange.
7. Green
Leaves—
The
green and brown leaves are also completed with a 2-color
blend using a medium sumi brush and CS666
Cala Green starting
at center vein of the leaves and CS686
Burnt Sienna on
the outside edges of the leaves.
8. Lips,
Nose, and Eyelid Area—
With a small sumi brush, apply one coat of CS681
Warm Wood to
these areas.
9. Eyes—
Paint eye area with 2 coats of CS607
Ivory using
a mini sumi brush. Create a large circle of CS686
Burnt Sienna for
the iris, applying 2 coats with a mini sumi brush.
Create a circle inside the iris of the eye with CS680
Burnt Umber, apply
2 coats. With liner brush create fine lines at different
lengths on iris starting at pupil and stop at edge of
iris to create a more realistic eye.
Highlight is created with #1 liner brush using CS607
Ivory. Allow
to dry.
10. Glazing—
Apply 2 coats of CG900 Crystal Clear on the outside of
planter using a #6 Fan Brush. Let dry between coats.
11. Firing—Stilt
and fire to witness cone 06.
Artist:
Renee Gehman
29 Main Street
Akron, PA 17501
717-859-5566
www.peggyandrenees.com
renee@peggyandrenees.com
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