Snowman Board Tutorial - Free Painting Directions

Supplies:

Decoart Americana paints

Cocoa

Milk Chocolate

Hauser Green Medium

Black

Antique Gold

Antique Maroon

Butter

Bleached Sand

Heritage Brick

Tangelo Orange

Evergreen

Country Red

Assorted brushes.

Star Stencil

Start by painting the center area of the board with Cocoa and shade with Milk Chocolate.

The outside edges are painted with Hauser Green Medium and shaded with Black.

Stencil stars in the corners with Antique Gold.

(I like to stencil using cosmetic sponge wedges)

Add some checkers with Antique Maroon using a 1/4" brush. The trick to these is thinning your paint, but not using a lot of paint on your brush. Too much paint will cause them to look rounded.

Sketch in your snowman face and hat and letters with chalk.
Then base in the face using Milk Chocolate in the darkest areas, Cocoa for the medium and a brush mix of Butter and Bleached Sand for the lightest areas.
Blend and dry brush with the Bleached Sand.

Repaint the start with Antique Gold and shade with Milk Chocolate.

Highlight with Butter and dry brush with Bleached Sand.

Lay in the dark areas of the hat with Evergreen.

Add a little Black in the darkest areas.

Hauser Green Medium for the light areas.

While this is still wet, use a worn out brush to pat blend the colors to make the hat look fuzzy.

The scarf, ball on the hat and brim of the hat are painted in the same manner as the body of the hat using Antique Maroon with Heritage Brick and Country Red for the lightest red.

Base the nose with a mix of Heritage Brick and Tangelo Orange.

Paint the letters with Evergreen and highlight with Hauser Green Medium.

Line the left and bottom of the letters and stars with Black.
Shade the bottom of the nose with Antique Maroon and highlight the top with a dry brush of Tangelo Orange.

Add stripes on the hat brim and scarf with Evergreen and Country Red.

Highlight the red stripes with Tangelo Orange.

Paint in the eyes and coal for mouth with Black and highlight with Bleached Sand.

Add highlight dots with Bleached Sand.

Shade under the bottom and left of the eyes, nose and mouth with Milk Chocolate.

Dry brush here and there with Bleached Sand.

With a liner brush and thinned Black paint, add vines around the edges between the background colors.

Speckle with Bleached Sand.

This is my own design.

You are free to paint this and sell it, however I would ask that you not copy the directions to your blog or reproduce them for sale.

Feel free to place a link to this on your blog though...

and....

If you paint this, I would love to see it!