How to Paint a Barn Star - Free Painting Tutorial

You will need:

Surface of choice.

(I am using one of the bizillion canvases that I prepped for a class that never was.)

Flat brush about 1/2 inch

Star Stencil

Cosmetic Sponge

Ruler

Pencil

Decoart Americana

Russet

Heritage Brick

Honey Brown

Black

Find the area that you want your star

and stencil it using very little

Russet paint on a cosmetic sponge.

After it is dry,

using a ruler,

draw the lines on the star as shown.

Here is the diagram to make it clearer.

Paint the x spots with Russet

and

the remaining spots with

Heritage Brick.

Your star should look like this.

Drybrush highlight

on the Russet areas with Heritage Brick

and the

Heritage Brick areas with a brush mix

of

Heritage Brick and Honey Brown.

This is brushed lightly at the points of the star.

Sideload shade the Heritage Brick areas with Russet

and

the Russet areas

with a brush mix of

Russet and Black.

And you are done!

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