Techniques for Catalog Page 37

 C-2006 LARGE BEARSKIN FAMILY                                      

Base coat entire figurine (except hair) with NW02 Antique White. If, as you are painting each area of color, the Tone-Ette smears adjacent areas, the smear can be repainted with the white.

The entire bearskin robe is antiqued with Brown. Do small area at a time and wipe back with the T-Shirt material. Brush some Maple on the T-Shirt material and rub on bear's head, shoulders and other highlights. The Maple will remove some of the Brown and leave a beautiful highlight.

Cover the rocks on the base with Gray Storm and remove color with T-Shirt. Use a small amount of Antiquing Solvent on material if necessary to remove more color. Brush a little Maple on T-Shirt and rub this over the rocks in same areas. Do the same with Olive on material and rub this color on a few areas. Using a lightly loaded #3 drybrush, scrub in Black to the grooves for extra shading.

Apply a coat of Gray Storm to the wolf, wipe down, and rub with Maple on highlights. Using Black in dry brush, scrub in shading in low places.

Eagle is antiqued with Rich Walnut. Drybrush eagles head and neck feathers with NW01 White. Apply Gold to beak and wipe back lightly.

Apply Turquoise to the man’s robe, wipe back lightly. Shade edges with Williamsburg Blue.

The baby's robe is Peach Dust, lightly wiped back.

The women dress is Peach Dust, with stripes of Turquoise shaded with Blue-Green. This color is brushed on and carefully wiped back.

Buffalos are antiqued with Shadow. The grass at their feet is Olive, put on and then wiped back.

Teepees are antiqued with French Antique.

Cover any smears on all skin detail with NW02. Antique the faces with Brown. Blush with Brick.

Again, using the #3 drybrush lightly loaded with Black, add shading to the bearskin robe, the buffalos, the base of Teepees and to any other areas that need a little depth.

Block in the eyeball with NW01 White. The iris on all eyes are filled in with OT 8 Maple Tan and the pupil is filled in with NW28 Raven Black. Add a highlight with NW02 White.

Fill in all hair with NW28 Raven Black. Spray entire figurine with Porcelain Mist Spray.

 

C-2002 SMALL BEARSKIN FAMILY

Cover figure completely with Raven Black.

Drybrush bear skin with 2 coats Mink. Then 1 coat Maple Tan overall with an extra coat on highlights. Highlight with Carrot.

Drybrush faces with Expresso, then Mink and highlight with Maple Tan. Blush cheeks and paint lips with Indian Red.

Baby's blanket is Turquoise with areas of Wedgewood and highlighted with Aqua.

Drybrush Maiden's dress with 1 coat of Indian Red then 2 coats of Red Orange and highlight with Orange.

Braves clothes are Mink with highlights of Butterscotch. Bone jewelry on brave is drybrushed with Mink then Butterscotch and highlighted with White.

Beads on Maiden and Brave are Red Orange for coral, Turquoise for turquoise stones with Orchid Hills on 1 strand and on hair ties. This color is applied with the #2 round brush by stroking just the tops of the beads with a full load of color.

On a palette mix a small amount of Kleer Matt Sealer with some Silver Powder and drybrush over the large necklace on maiden and also on the chain holding the teeth on brave .

Stones on this necklace are dotted on with the #2 round and Turquoise. Drybrush lightly over hair with Wedgewood.

Features are painted with White on eyes, Maple Ten on iris and Raven Black on brows, lashes, pupils and on bear's nose and eye slits. Highlight each eye with a dot of White.

Add 1 coat of Kleer Matt over the eyes, on bone jewelry and over the coral stones.

Sketch on the pattern on the robe with a soft lead pencil.

Load a square shader with Orchid Hills and paint mountain range, keeping color to top edge. Shade over some of this with Wedgewood. Load square shader with Maple Tan and paint buttes just where shaded on pattern. Load square shader with Butterscotch and paint in horizon line and other areas of sand where Indicated on pattern.

Fill in cactus with Willow. Add highlights with square trader loaded with a mixture of Willow and Butterscotch. Shade with Raven Black.

Add broken outlines of Raven Black to Buttes, hills, cactus and a few lines in sand.




 

C-2011 CORN MAIDEN

Base coat entire figurine except the hair with NW02 Antique White. Hair is NW28 Raven Black.

Apply one coat OT19 Black Cherry to the skirt. Remove from highlights using T-Shirt material, leaving color in grooves and all low areas. Use brush to apply a little 0T10 Magenta to T-Shirt material stretched over your finger and rub this color over the highlights of the skirt.

Apply one coat OT14 Blue Green to the blouse and wipe back with T-Shirt material. Shade

blouse with 013 Black using a #3 dry brush with most of the color removed to darken the low

Areas.

Apply OT13 Gold to basket and "ribbons" in her hair, OT18 French Antique to hairpipe necklace and 0T9 Maple to the belt that holds the conchos. Wipe back these areas.

Apply OT2 White to the ears of corn and before this color drys add a light coat of 0T7 Yellow to the kernels and a light coat of OT20 Spring Green to the corn shucks. Wipe back to blend.

Apply OT29 Pecan Wood to all flesh areas and wipe back. Blush with OT16 Brick.

Mix 0T2 White and 0T3 Black to get e charcoal gray and apply this color to the necklace. Wipe back.

Cover eyes with NW01 White. The iris is NW18 Maple Tan. Using a 10/0 liner, complete pupil, eyebrows and lashes with NW28 Raven Black. Add a dot of White to each eye for highlight. Brush on a coat of Kleer Gloss over the eyes.

Mix Kleer Gloss with a small amount of the Silver Powder and "dot on" this mixture to the necklace and cover each concho with the silver.

Mix NW34 Turquoise with CS White Sand to the consistency of soft ice cream and dot this mixture on the Turquoise Stones on the necklace and conchos.

Spray with Porcelain Mist Spray if desired.

 

C-1136 INDIAN FACE POTN FACE POT

Clean greenware and pour thinned Black Patent glaze inside; roll around to cover and drain excess. Clean off any drops on outside of pot. Fire to cone 05.

Base coat entire outside of pot with Flesh.

Apply 0T4 Brown to all flesh areas. Wipe off using the T-Shirt material. Blush with OT16 Brick.

Select any of the Tone-Ette colors you wish and brush on over a small area then remove with T-Shirt material. A small amount of a contrasting color of Tone-Ette can be brushed on the material and this is used to rub on highlights.

Black lightly loaded on a stiff brush can be used to scrub in shadow detail for extra depth.

Finished pot can be sprayed with Porcelain Mist Spray if desired.

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Revised: December 02, 2006 .