Return from the Dead

Brushes and Bolts return from the dead

With the inspiration if fall and Halloween, I have brought Brushes and Bolts back to life. Today I will be sharing a quick DIY fall painting and a link to a steal of a deal scarf & beanie combo I am offering in my online shop. It ends TODAY!!!

My apartment building does a lot of events for everyone that lives here. The next one I get to help out at! They have called it paint and pour and we will be painting and well, pouring wine into our glasses so our paintings looks beautiful by the time we are done!

Our painting will eventually (fingers crossed) look something like this

Here are a quick view of the materials and steps I used to do this painting.

Use your pencil to mark where you want your birch trees. Now, use tape to act as your trees, be sure to press all edges down so nothing leaks.



Once you tape is on where you want. Put TINY, TINY drops of paint onto your canvas. Place the drops where you want the color to be the most bold! My picture of above has TOO MUCH PAINT!!!

Now, water down your sponge brush so you can cover you background with a small amount of paint. You want this to dry fast so a lot of paint = not drying fast!

be sure to dab your sponge brush to it is not soaking wet! 

Now start spreading your paint around covering your canvas. 

Dab your sponge brush as needed. If your colors are mixing too much, clean your brush. 

for a more blended look, use the entire sponge. Press the entire sponge down firmly until you have the desired amount of blending. 

You can also use you pencil to draw in any other trees in the background. You will use black paint for these for don't worry about the pencil showing through. Take your tiny, thin brush and dip it into your black paint as need to "trace" paint you little trees in the background.

Here is a good place to take a sip or 5 of wine while you wait for your background to dry...trust me, you want it to dry! 

Here is me being lazy and not fixing this....

you canvas should be covered with your trees. Have a few sips of wine while you wait for it to dry. 

About 3 sips in, take off your tape carefully. 

Use a brush that fits right into you taped off trees. Add white to the base background of your tress. 

Here there is no need to wait for this to dry, the less perfect your birch details the better! 

You will need a piece of paper, thick paper. I used old paint sample color swatches. Dip just the edge into black paint. Start on one side of your white birch base and drag the strip of paper across your tree.

Do this as you see fit. Switch sides of where you begin your drag. 

You can than use the edge to add lined details to your trees. 

Also, your tiny, tiny paint brush dipped in black paint will help with any other added details you want to ad. See below:

& now sip some more wine. 

Be sure to wait until your painting is pretty dry at this point.

Once it is dry, re- tape your trees! 

Now the fun part....which I for some reason do not have any photos of? hmm....

yse a small circle sponge brush..or anything smaller brush and add your colorful leaves over your trees. Space them out first, than go back over and do layers. Wait about 3 mins between each layer so your color spots do not blend too much together creating an abstract blob. 

Take off your tape when you are ready for your LAST layers of color! 

Ta-Duh! 

If you are reading this and attending well well- I will see your lovely face there! If you somehow got lost in the world of blogging and ended up here well, hello and I hope you enjoy this post!

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