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ACRYLIC
Painter’s Checklist
SURFACE
Hand turned cup
PALETTE
DECOART AMERICANA ACRYLIC Antique Green
Antique Maroon
Blue Haze
Burnt Umber Cranberry Wine Midnite Green Orange Twist Payne’s Grey Persimmon
Red Alert Salem Blue Soft Black Spicy Mustard Warm White
BRUSHES
LOEW-CORNELL
Series 7000 no. 6 filbert
Series 7000 no. 0 liner
Series 7000 no. 2 round
Series 7000 nos. 8 & 12 shaders Series 7000 3⁄4" wash
Nos. 272 L & no. 272 XS dome round
SUPPLIES
Basic painting supplies (page 96) DecoArt Americana Light Satin Varnish Liberty Matte Spray (optional) Norwegian Painting Medium
Soft rag or Viva paper towels
SOURCE
Hand turned cup is available from Calico Goose; (330) 467-7402; bbunsey@calicogoose.com; www.calicogoose.com.
46 The Decorative Painter • ISSUE NO. 4, 2015
Ihave a collection of items with strawberry designs in my kitchen. Several pieces were painted by Peter Om- pir, along with some by Werner Wrede and John Dunn, both of whom studied with Ompir. This is my inter-
pretation of their strawberries on a hand turned cup. “The Fruits of the Spirit are Peace, Love, Joy...” (Galatians 5:22- 23). I wish for you to enjoy these three things in your life.
PREPARATION
Apply a basecoat of Spicy Mustard to the cup. Using the dry L dome brush, pick up Soft Black. Take out excess paint on your palette, and dry brush along the outside edges of cup “bowl”, under where the strawberry design will be on the cup, as well as on the top and the bottom of the “stem.” Trace on the strawberries pattern.
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