Star and Berry Vine Tutorial

In just a few (maybe more) easy steps, you too can paint these lovely star and berry vines!

Doesn't that just sound like an infomercial? TV, here I come!

The basecoating.

I use Decoart colors.

They rock!

Using a lot of paint, don't be afraid, load it up.

Lay in Black, Russet and Cocoa.

Keep it random and messy and wet...make sure you work fast enough that it stays wet.

Then,

Using a sponge,

Sponge all the colors together.

Try to leave light and dark areas.

Don't overblend it.

Then paint the outside edges Russet and drybrush here and there with Heritage Brick.

With Milk Chocolate, thinned on a nice crisp flat brush,

paint in those checkers.

Everything needs checkers.

What you should have so far.

See that nice blending on the background colors.



Now for the vine.
You will need a nice, long, script liner brush.
Thin down a brush mix of Black and Milk Chocolate and lay in vines the whole way around..or long if you are not doing a round piece.
They do it again with just Milk Chocolate.
You can highlight these here and there with Milk Chocolate and Cocoa.



Close up

Next you are going to stencil the stars.

Really.

Stencil.

There are tons of star stencils out there.

I know, I think I have at least one of each.
I use a cosmetic sponge for this.

I am going to warn you.

Not all cosmetic sponges are the same.

Buy a higher quality than the Dollar Store.

They are still cheap and you can use them and let them dry and cut the paint off and use them again.

Ok, I am frugal.

Oh yeah,

Antique Gold.

Repaint them with Antique Gold and Milk Chocolate.

Jut pick up both colors on your brush and see what happens.

Don't over mix them, you want them all to be different.

Highlight on the right side with more Antique Gold.

Then highlight again with Butter.

You can go back and highlight a few of them with White.

Shade the left side with Russet.

With a #3 round brush, paint in berries.

Some are Russet and some are Heritage Brick.

Shade the Heritage brick ones with Russet and highlight the Russet ones with Heritage Brick.

Highlight the Heritage Brick ones again with Milk Chocolate.

With Black, line the left side of the stars as shown and connect the berries.

Easy!

Of course!

Please paint these, share the link, etc, but don't take it as your own!

and

If you paint something with these berries and stars, please send a pic for me to see!

Don't forget the giveaway over on my selling blog.

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