Pumpkin Plaque
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Americana:
DAO1 Titanium (Snow) White
DAO9 Antique Gold
DAO10 Cadmium Yellow
DAO65 Dark Chocolate
DA129 True Red
DA131 Hauser Light Green
DA133 Hauser Dark Green
DA228 Bright Orange
Techniques used:
Side-loading
Liner work

Supplies list:
9"x 12" Plaque - Demis Products, Inc.
#12 flat brush
#8 flat brush
#10-0 liner brush
pumpkin transfer pattern
cotton swabs
Painting instructions:
1. Mix equal parts of Antique Gold and Titanium White. Using a #12 flat brush, basecoat plaque face. Basecoat the routed edge with Antique Gold. Let dry.
2. Trace and transfer pattern.
3. Use #12 flat brush to basecoat the large pumpkin with Bright Orange and the top leaves with Hauser Light Green. Mix a small amount of Cadmium Yellow into Bright Orange and basecoat small pumpkin. Mix a small amount of Cadmium Yellow into Hauser Light Green and paint two bottom leaves and pumpkin stems. Mix equal parts of Cadmium Yellow and Dark Chocolate and paint squash. Basecoat corn cobs Titanium White.
4. Side-load #12 flat brush with True Red and shade pumpkin sections. Repeat side-loading technique with #12 flat brush and Cadmium Yellow to highlight.
5. Side-load #8 flat brush with Dark Chocolate and shade squash sections. Side-load same brush with Cadmium Yellow to highlight.
6. Side-load #12 flat brush with Hauser Dark Green. Shade leaf vein, then side-load with Cadmium Yellow to highlight.
7. Use a liner brush and Hauser Dark Green to outline leaves and stem, and to paint tendrils.
8. Dip a cotton swab in a variety of colors to add accents to corn.
9. Thin Dark Chocolate with water and paint corn husks with a #8 flat brush. Use liner brush and Titanium White to outline. Use Dark Chocolate for details.
10. Shade all parts by applying Dark Chocolate thinned with water with a #12 flat brush.